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Reading research from the past.

There are several papers/books in math, economics, logic, philosophy, etc. from the past 200 years that I've been interested in reading but have never had a structured plan to go about it. I've occasionally just read random stuff.

This year I started a project where I write some thoughts on a handful of papers/books from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. Here's the result from 1923 [1], and I'm nearly finished with 1873.

Organizing the reading like this has kept the scope manageable and the project fun. Hopefully, it's something I'll continue into the future.

[1] https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1923/



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