15 Hours a Day of Mathematics Self-Study

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[IDMYM]

I do 15 hours of YouTube watching, so I can relate to her dedication

[gustafa]

15 hours a day... Your body will degrade before you can make any important discoveries. You need to find balance.

[xioxy]

I believe is not great to study 15 hours a day all days. Sure if you love it you may enjoy it while doing it but that means you are dedicating no time to planning your life, your next step on achieving a career and most importantly how you will maintain yourself on the long run. Don’t get me wrong math is great and I admire that someone is capable of studying so much (I couldn’t) but still at age 16, there are still many things that are very important to consider and think about and just studying math is not enough to prosper. Other than that, great enthusiasm.

[osama]

Babe wake up the math sorcerer uploaded a video

[Hope-unwv]

My advice is when studying hard it is important also to: - Eat healthily, Do at least an hours exercise a day ( preferably out in the fresh air and sunlight (depending on heat and strength of the sun), Socialise for at least 30 minutes and break studying into chunks or subjects. Have small breaks in between, make sure you are hydrated and be proud of yourself when you successfully complete a subject. Other factors include having clean organised surroundings and sometimes having classical music quietly playing in the background and using colours and scents. These last few things help with strengthenng the neural pathways. Also revision does that too.

[lordnoiado]

There’s a reason why you need 4 years to complete your undergrad. 15 hours is unhealthy

[daniellindner]

That’s amazing. I personally only find the time to study math 8-9 hours a day. Sometimes even 10. Ever since I started learning more and more maths and closing my knowledge gap, math has really become fun. I just have to do it and the day flies by.

[GarryBurgess]

This kid is going to be the next Isaac Newton. I'm impressed.

[philippemts]

I remember a neurologist said giving breaks during the studying process is very important for absorbing/learning the content properly. Good sleeping time and healthy eating is also essential for a healthy mind.

[quantumshadow]

OK I'm gonna share my experience with this and what I learned from study this hard:
some years ago, I was trying to do 4 final test at the same month (you can choose different dates for that in my country)
I was preparing physics, chemistry, calculus 1, and analytic geometry and algebra.
for 3 months I had study 12 hours straight with only small breaks for bath and eat, I was more than tired, I was even more than over burned, I felted like I was over nuked my brain. I had high blood pressure, diplopia, high cholesterol and constant headaches all due to all the stress and lack of rest, good eating and exercise.
I failed all 4 finals because that, and when my doctor give me the result of my medical test he lecture me a lot about how a student should use their time to study.
at the end I learn and manage to succeed with this plan:
1) Never study more than 6 hours a day (this was the most important thing my doctor say).
2) Every hour, you study 45 minutes and rest 15 minutes.
3) When you rest, don't stay still, go and stretch, make a walk of 10 minutes around the block or something.
4) Eat well and make some cardio ( at least 30 minutes of walking or 15 minutes of jogging).
5) Rest well, sleep your 8 hours, and even better, you can boost your memory by taking a nap, between study but only 45 minutes per day.
6) Watch your caffeine levels, only drink 1 cup of coffee or black tea per day, forget about energy drinks, you think they give you a boost but that comes with negatives effects I know it for experience, instead drink green tea, is like coffee but without the caffeine.
7) Study only 6 days per week, the day of rest don't even dare think in books just do what ever you want, but don't study at all, even if you have a test or a final the next day, why? because you will feel over burned, and you won't be able to think straight during your test.

With this I go from a 2 in calculus to a solid 8. I hope this can help you.

[joef]

To piggy back off what mr sorcerer said, I too have gone through extended periods where I was dedicating almost all of my time to math, for months at one point I had a 10am-2am schedule where I was on campus studying/working the whole time. While fun, burnout is very real. While being this passionate about math is a wonderful thing, take your mental health seriously! Prolonged periods of time where you are alone and frustrated can take their toll. Make sure you eat right, take care of yourself, keep a healthy social life, and remember that getting help in any way is not weakness, especially in math, it is strength! They say that healthy people are happy people, since mathematicians are people, it is fair, and important to remember in my opinion, that healthy mathematicians make happy mathematicians.

[IustinThe_Human]

From my experience, having someone that knows the same topic is making a big difference because you can get from him/her an intuition of how simple/hard each individual thing is. This way you're not wasting time on trying to understand something that you already understand . For example, i was studying on my own derivatives and integrations and i always felt that i didn't know it, until these subjects where presented in class (2 years later) that it finally clicked for me. It was nothing new for me, only the way the teacher sees it was new. It made a big difference on my confidence on that subject.

[joevostoch]

Hey Abdullah. I could read, write, add, subtract, multiply, and divide at age 4. But I couldn't do algebra until I was 19. I was stumped by what "X" was. When I figured it out (it's a symbol representing whatever you are solving for, which could be anything) in a remedial algebra class given over two summer semesters, I went through all of my math courses for a 5 year BSME degree (from arithmetic through partial differential equations) in 1 year and 1 semester, with straight A+ grades. The key to my success were the four books they used for the remedial algebra class. Every idea, every problem, was just the width of a hair above the last one. Every single gap in my understanding was filled in. Every question was answered. Nothing was left as an exercise for the reader. I was never in the dark or uncertain about how to obtain a result. I still have those books, plus all the other ones I used to obtain my degree, plus several thousand more obtained over a nearly 40 year career as a professional engineer with a big interest in STEM. I am convinced that if you can find the right books, and read them in the right order, you can learn anything. How long it takes depends on how much UNINTERRUPTED time you spend studying and how long it takes you to internalize the things you are learning. Let me give you an example. Late in my career I decided to find out how "valid" my 40 year old engineering education still was. I set out to discover what changes had occurred in physics in the last 40 years, since engineering is based on applied physics. Since I had never taken any courses in quantum mechanics, knew very little about the subject, and it was a hot topic at the time, I decided to just jump in and start studying it. So for five solid years I bought and read every book I could find on quantum mechanics. After reading over 30 books, ranging from general science paperbacks to thick, expensive graduate level texts, the only thing that had changed, with any certainty, was that they think neutrinos have mass but it is too small to measure. There were lots of new applications, like cell phones, but they were all based on old physics, and were mainly just material science and manufacturing technique breakthroughs, not new physics. So everything I had been taught about engineering like summing forces and moments, calculating stresses and strains, thermodynamics, etc. was all still valid. And today I can read most articles about quantum mechanics and, for the most part, understand them. I hope this helps you in your quest to learn mathematics, how math objects are defined and derived, and what are the connections between them. Learning is a life long process.

[TropicalOxidane]

Nice video, keep it up. Right now I’m dealing with partial fractions for Vector Calculus, wish anyone who’s embarking on the same journey with luck!

[lewessays]

His commitment is admirable and I understand his intentions because I am doing the same but, with computer science. What I am kinda worried about is burn out and retention. The amount of time for him to be decent or even a master depends on these two things.
I am speaking from experience. This two things might affect your mental health down the road. I wish you all the best man.

[Singularitarian]

“15 hours a day” Keep it up man, you’re obsessed and I think that’s awesome. You’re going to burn through the main parts of undergrad math in about a year, but then you can continue to improve your understanding for several more years while you also move on to grad level math.

[manuelgandaras]

I'm from argentina and i taught myself calculus over the course of one summer, and complex analysis in six weeks, the key thing was to not burn out and be consistent with some study each day

[patriciagreen]

I admire your determination. dedication and skill set. Try to take frequent breaks for hydration, eating, and exercise. Stay the course, and you will accomplish your goals. My best wishes for your success.

[mauriciovalentino]

Your Channel is great! Thanks from here in Brazil.

[sukd]

studying all day can be done, i currently do it, im an adult. But self study is more relaxed so thats why.Also i found i burned out every three months for about 2 years until i stopped burning out, but i do find my hands tremble alot.

if you are self studying you may want to make sure you do move through the material at a good speed rather than spending too long on a unit, from my experience its possible to be stuck on a part for a year, giving up and starting again and time passing by.

self study can be deceptive so make sure you have progress markers.