How do you self educate while making progress? I am going through

>>8576709
>Is one of these books a waste of time?

No.

>>8576709
I don't know why you would be reading two books if they are for the same thing.

If you are doing it for the problems then don't bother and just do problem from online problem databases.

>How do you self educate while making progress?

By knowing what your goal is and then questioning if as you study you get closer to your goal.

>>8576715
You are fucking retarded, get out.

>How do you self educate while making progress?

Make a daily log of what you've learned or built and update it every day.

You'll have an objective benchmark for the progress you're making.

>>8576709
neither is a waste of time. questions which all you to show a result are called proofs. questions which ask you to fix a numerical or symbolic answer are called computations.

both have a lot of value in cementing your knowledge of a subject mathematically. you should do proofs until they become trivially obvious and the outline of how to solve is in your head upon looking at the question. you should do computations until your answers are consistently numerically or symbolically correct