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What should I read to learn math from the ground up and up to around Masters level? Not memeing or joking, I have a lot of hobbies where math would help.

Thanks brehs.

>> No.13753444

>>13753437
Have you tried the /sci/ sticky? They make some fine recommendations.

>> No.13753502

lmao good luck.

There will be no single book that you can casually read to get better at math. You slam your head against the wall for several years until it starts making sense.

>> No.13753772

The best thing would be to start off with the last thing you remember learning correctly. Maybe it was Calculus, or maybe it was Algebra, or maybe it could've even been Elementary Geometry.
Whatever it be, try to pick up a book on that subject and see if you can solve all of the exercises in it, in addition to paying strong attention to the reasoning behind every single procedure.
After that, you'll wanna take the usual stuff that STEM students take during their Freshman year, which is Linear Algebra, Differential and Integral Calculus. Maths students take classes on Mathematical Logic too. From this, they then go onto Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Analysis, and Computational Mathematics or something of that sort.
Any real life applications of Mathematics are mostly dependent on Algebra and Calculus. Anything else is mostly masturbatory stuff made for people who are really sets, types, categories, and stuff like that, all of which is just extremely formalized metaphysics.

>> No.13753787

>>13753772
>who are really sets
*who are strongly fascinated by sets

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>>13753437
Quick Arithmetic by Carman
All The Math You'll Ever Need by Slavin
Speed Mathematics Simplified by Stoddard
Secrets Of Mental Math by Benjamin
Speed System Of Basic Mathematics by Tratchenberg
Mental Calculators Handbook by Fountain
Dead Reckoning - Doerfler
Mathematics For The Non-Mathematician - Kline
An Introduction To Mathematics by Whitehead
You now know basic arithmetic.

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>>13753802
Whoops wrong image sorry. I checked and I don't have the image I meant to post.

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Thanks guise, appreciate all the answers. Have a qt.

>> No.13754507

>reading Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic as a nascent form of constitutive phenomenology in light of Sokolowski's interpretation of Husserl
>realize set theorists are actual fucking morons
>realize 90% of 20th/21st century mathematics is built on complete fanciful nonsense by people who also think they're the most rigorous thinkers ever

>> No.13755434

>>13753437
an absolute beginner should grind through khanacademy.org/math. try to get at least 80% on all quizzes, unit tests and course challenges

>> No.13755483

>>13754507
>he thinks actual working mathematicians give a shit about foundationalism
jfl