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Peas
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Sup guys please recommend me books/sites/resources for learning/understanding mathematics from the ground up
Some background info:
Learning as a hobby
28 this year
Is basically retarded
Thanks in advance guys
Some background info:
Learning as a hobby
28 this year
Is basically retarded
Thanks in advance guys
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Also, seconding https://www.khanacademy.org/
Also thanks for the recommendation! Gonna check it out
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
I went into it after not having done math for years, and it definitely filled in some essential gaps for me.
I know you said its a hobby, but that's a little vague. It's a huge topic.
wolframalpha.com/ bills itself as a "computational knowledge engine," but basically works as a search engine for math. It can solve for all sorts of things, and if you have a free account, it will explain step by step three problems a day. You can pay for more if you'd like.
On Youtube, you can check out ViHart for some light-hearted and fun look at math, and there's a million teachers out there that put lectures and lessons on youtube for free. It's how Khan Academy started out, actually.
http://www.palgrave.com/stroud/
http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Mathematics-K-A-Stroud/product-reviews/0831133279/ref=sr_cr_hist_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
(note that there is a newer, cheaper, edition than that amazon link, but that one has more reviews)
I am forever shilling this book to people self-studying maths, because that's what I did with it. It doesn't assume any knowledge beyond basic arithmetic but goes all the way to up to multivariable calculus, Laplace transforms, and Probability and statistics. The thing is 1200 pages long, but you can dip in and out of it wherever you like, and it's really good at pointing you back to previous sections where it combines concepts.
In high school I passed algebra 2 by literally 1 point... not 1 percent, 1 point on a test. My first attempt at college I failed algebra 2 twice. Years later I went back after around 10 years of rarely doing math more difficult than making change, and used khan academy and purple math regularly for more explanation on anything I didn't understand. I've now taken algebra 2 up through calculus 2 and discrete math and have mostly found these classes easy, get mostly perfect scores on assignments and tests, and have a 4.0 GPA.
wolfram alpha can also be useful, but I find it less useful than the previous two. I have mostly used the problem solvers on wolfram alpha to walk me through the steps of solving problems that I couldn't figure out. To do that, though, you still need to understand the core math it's using and sometimes it uses very strange steps and processes that you probably wouldn't when solving it by hand for a math class.