How to Read Mathematics

Re:How to Read Mathematics by andrepd on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:28AM (#15914381)

>First try to find the paper. First use http://front.math.ucdavis.edu . If you can't find it then use google scholar. If that fails then go on the authors academic website. If that fails then see if the author is live and try to contact them. Then repeat for their grad students. If all else fails post it to r/math or HN and ask for the pdf.

You can replace all that by a trip to sci-hub ;)

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Re:How to Read Mathematics by extra__tofu on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @09:50AM (#15914528)

I believe sci-hub has been taken down, at least temporarily. The .cc and .bz domains weren't working for me. I think it's possible to setup custom DNS servers on your machine and access that way, but I haven't played around with it.

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Re:How to Read Mathematics by jloughry on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:36PM (#15915772)

It's still possible to use Sci-Hub, it's just that DNS queries for it tend to fail. Even knowing the IP address isn't enough, because although that gets you to the familiar Sci-Hub home page, search results always time out.

The trick is to find out the IP address of a DNS server or two that knows about Sci-Hub, and put those in your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Note: They have to come first in the file, before any 'compromised' DNS servers like Google's or your ISP's, that will always report 'sorry, I don't know how to find this "Sci-Hub" you speak of'.

If you're on a Windows machine, do it in Control Panel instead; dig down in Network settings, TCP/IP, Advanced, DNS to find the place to type in new DNS server IP addresses.

Do that, and Sci-Hub works fine. Twitter is a good place to find the latest working IP addresses for their DNS server. Last time I looked, they were 80.82.77.83 and 80.82.77.84.

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Re:How to Read Mathematics by CamperBob2 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:44PM (#15917486)

It's .hk at the moment.

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