Books do not make you better at math. Working math problems makes you better at math. Go ahead, down vote all you want.
Reading about running does not make you a better runner. You can watch 1000 marathons, sprinters, Olympians. You may get _ideas_ for running, but it will never make you a better runner. To be a better runner you have to do it. To be a better programmer/mathematician/physicist/whatever, you need to go work at it.
I suppose I am just taking action against how the question is written, but I see a lot of people seemingly hoping that "if they just found the correct book, tutorial, or video, they would be better". A lof of those people are my students. When I ask how many problems they have worked, I typically always get the same response. Zero, or the bare minimum.
Reading about running does not make you a better runner. You can watch 1000 marathons, sprinters, Olympians. You may get _ideas_ for running, but it will never make you a better runner. To be a better runner you have to do it. To be a better programmer/mathematician/physicist/whatever, you need to go work at it.
I suppose I am just taking action against how the question is written, but I see a lot of people seemingly hoping that "if they just found the correct book, tutorial, or video, they would be better". A lof of those people are my students. When I ask how many problems they have worked, I typically always get the same response. Zero, or the bare minimum.