Hello everyone, today I am announcing a sister-project to this blog that I have been working on for a while:
Tao Analysis Flashcards is a website which hosts question-and-answer flashcards on the content in Analysis I. Each set of flashcards is associated with a section from the book, and is meant to be completed after you finish reading the section. The idea is that instead of a “read the section” → “do the exercises” loop, we make it a “read the section” → “check understanding of reading by doing flashcards” → “do the exercises” loop. I’m hoping the extra step will do some combination of making you pay more attention to the reading, clarifying some points not raised in the reading, and checking your understanding so you feel more confident you understood each section.
Learning mathematics is hard. Even harder is to learn mathematics on your own, which I believe most readers of my blog are doing when they work through Analysis I. But even harder still is to learn mathematics and actually retain it over the long term. So many times I’ve thought I understood a topic, only to realize several months later that I couldn’t recall most of what I had learned! And that brings us to another aspect of these flashcards: they are spaced repetition flashcards, which means you will get email reminders to review the cards over time, allowing you to efficiently retain the knowledge even as months or years pass.
Please let me know in comments your thoughts, especially if a card seems confusing or too difficult.
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