Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: March 3, 1916 - October 2, 2006
Birthday: March 3
Death: October 2
Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?
source: "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
topic: Fighting, Example, Doe, Mathematical Proof