Please name some published/preserved notebooks of famous (or not so famous) mathematicians, which you think reflect their learning or thinking process.
Notebooks which contain mistakes are highly requested.
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Sign up to join this communityPlease name some published/preserved notebooks of famous (or not so famous) mathematicians, which you think reflect their learning or thinking process.
Notebooks which contain mistakes are highly requested.
Well, Ramanujan's notebooks contain quite a few mistakes. However, he didn't generally provide proof along with his theorems, so it's really just a list of theorems. If I'm not mistaken though, he later went through them with Hardy and added some proofs. Even today, people are still working through his notebooks and proving his theorems. A lot of the proofs can be appreciated with just high school algebra too.
The Recoltes et semailles of A. Gothendieck is not a notebook in the conventional sense, but it is not a formal, polished paper too. It's something between the two -- although with a lot of personal stuff and some nonsense mixed in; but who doesn't dawdle in their books in those moments of apparent boredom?
Les archives Bourbaki give a fascinating overview of Bourbaki's working methods and thinking process.