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 <blockquote>It's also crucial to ask people questions and explain things to people — both of these are great ways to learn stuff. Nothing beats sitting in a cafe with a friend, notebooks open, and working together on a regular basis. Two minds are more than twice as good as one! But if you can't find a friend in your town, there are different ways to talk to people online. In all cases, it's good to spend some time quietly getting to know the local customs before plunging in and talking. For example, trying to start a rambling discussion on a question-and-answer website is no good. Here are some options: Question-and-Answer Websites — If you've got physics questions, try Physics Stack Exchange. For research-level questions, try Physics Overflow. For questions about math, try Math Stack Exchange, or for research-level questions, Math Overflow. Discussion Forums — To get into discussions of physics, try sci.physics.research. For math, try sci.math or, for research-level questions, sci.math.research. I also recommend Physics Forums for both math and physics discussions. At least some of the question-and-answer websites listed above also have community forums where you can discuss things. <cite>[[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html#quantum_field_theory|John Baez]]</cite></blockquote>
+----
+**Self Organized Learning Environments**
+  *[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4X03-xOFN4| SOLE in Higher Education]]
+**Big Questions for SOLE Searchers**
 <tabbox Books>
 No book is perfect and therefore it is inevitable that readers get stuck somewhere. That's why it's often incredibly helpful to read the thing the authors wants to express formulated in different terms. Sometimes such alternative formulations exist in the form of **reading notes**, which are notes that someone took while reading the book. Here we collect such notes and in addition, **solutions for textbook problems** and **answers to frequently asked questions**.
-<nspages resources -h1 -textPages="">
+<nspages resources:books -h1 -textPages="">
-<tabbox Career Advice>
+----
-  * [[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/advice.html|Advice for the Young Scientist]] by John Baez
+  * http://physicspages.com/ -  notes and solutions to various problems in some textbooks in physics by Glenn Rowe
-  * [[https://www.nature.com/articles/426389a|Four golden lessons]] by Steven Weinberg
-  * [[http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/|Advice for a young researcher]] by Dinoj Surendran
+----
-  * Resources for Graduate Students by Dr. Mark Tomforde
+  * [[https://www.engines4ed.org/hyperbook/nodes/NODE-315-pg.html|The Key Function of an ASK System]] from the Engines for Education Hyperbook by Roger C. Schank and Chip Cleary
+<tabbox Roadmaps>
+<WRAP group>
+<WRAP half column>
+While a [[about|main idea of this travel guide]] is that physics is best learned in a self-directed manner, a little guidance is never harmful. Especially, because it happens often that beginner students get lost and can't see the forest for the trees.
+For this reason, we collect here roadmaps. These are rough guides that explain which topics and resources are essential to understand a given topic and outline possible ways to tackle to subject.
+There is no perfect roadmap that is a good fit for everyone. Therefore it's crucial that everyone finds a roadmap which matches his/her style.
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-**Supervisors**
+**General Roadmaps**
-There are several different types of supervisors.
+</WRAP>
+<WRAP half column>{{ :completelandscape.png?nolink&350 |}}</WRAP>
+</WRAP>
-  * There are some, who assign problems to their students and then let them work largely on their own.
+  * [[resources:roadmaps:traditional]]
-  * There are some, who assign problems and micromanage every single step.
+  * [[resources:roadmaps:from_symmetry]]
-  * And there are some who let their students pick problems and work on their own.
+  * [[resources:roadmaps:from_history]]
+  * [[http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index.html|How to become a good theoretical physicist]] by Gerard 't Hooft
+  * [[https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-learn-physics|So You Want To Learn Physics...]] by Susan Fowler. See also the accompanying [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691963|discussion at HackerNews]].
+  * [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KBovBeg_kl6nAk8fTBYQdHMo8o3o0IgunPE3R7_OEHM|So You Want To Be A Physicist]] by ZapperZ
+  * [[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html|How to Learn Math and Physics]] by John Baez
-An example of this last supervision style is described in the following quote:
-<blockquote>
+In addition, to these general roadmaps there are also more specific roadmaps. These are listed on the overview page for the corresponding subject, e.g. on the following pages
-In the 1930s Kemmer had been a research student of Wolfgang Pauli, an overpowering Austrian theorist who had given him such a tough problem to investigate that Kemmer had nearly given up theoretical physics there and then. This experience had scared him so much that, to protect students from a similar fate, he was reluctant to suggest any problems to them at all. Instead, he recommended that they read the literature and find something for themselves.
-<cite>page 21 in The Infinity Puzzle by Frank Close</cite>
+  * [[theories:quantum_mechanics]],
-</blockquote>
+  * [[theories:quantum_field_theory]],
+  * [[theories:classical_mechanics]].
+----
+** Further Reading**
+  * [[https://betterexplained.com/articles/honest-learning/|Honest and Realistic Guides for Learning]]
+<tabbox Career Advice>
+  * [[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/advice.html|Advice for the Young Scientist]] by John Baez
+  * [[https://www.nature.com/articles/426389a|Four golden lessons]] by Steven Weinberg
+  * [[http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~dinoj/|Advice for a young researcher]] by Dinoj Surendran
+  * [[https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/gradstudents.html|Resources for Graduate Students]] by Dr. Mark Tomforde
+  * [[https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/|Career advice]] by Terence Tao with many links to similar advice pages
+  * [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VXIJt021VkY| Corporate Memory]] Roger Schank
+  * [[https://https://www.socraticarts.com| ExTRA Knowledge Management]] Socratic Arts
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3xGPQ8S1fQ| What does a theoretical physicist do?]] Sabine Hossenfelder
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WttrWqdfOPM| Are you smart enough to study physics?]] by Tibees
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV41QEKiMlM| Fermi's rejection of our work]] Freeman Dyson - Web of Stories
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N44DZJW4LSw|Trying to convince Oppenheimer that the old physics works]] Freeman Dyson - Web of Stories
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaG_bsagbkc| Discussing and formulating theories]] John Wheeler
+  * Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Science, Harvard University Press, 1989 (contains IMP's Manual of Discovering)
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-iSRCvLK8| Why knowledge and blue sky research is important]] Fabiola Gianotti, Serge Haroche
+  * [[https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/i-dont-know-how-to-teach/| I Don't Know How To Teach]] Dr. Richard P. Feynman, PhD
 <tabbox LaTeX Tips>
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   * [[https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/Images/writing-tips.pdf|Writing Mathematical Papers —a Few Tips]] by Jerzy Trzeciak
   * A great [[https://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/Links-LaTeX.html|LaTeX resource page by Tom Forde]]
+  * https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
+  * Recommended online LaTeX editors: [[https://https:/sharelatex.com/|Sharelatex]] and [[https://www.overleaf.com/|Overleaf]]
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