Math Books

[Anonymous No.17840026]

Listen /lit/ I'm passionate about literature and the classics but I'm a STEM major and I have to survive Calc 1 and 2.
What books can I read to help me prepare, my foundations are pretty much solely college algebra.

[Anonymous No.17840034]

>>17840026
Calc 1 and 2 can be passed with rote memorization. You'll have trouble later on if you do that though

[Anonymous No.17840038]

3blue1brown's youtube channel has a great series on calculus, Morris Kline also has good books on the history of math and a historical approach to calculus although it's probably safer to just brute force it like the vast majority of students do if you're limited on time

[Anonymous No.17840048]

>>17840026
https://archive.org/details/theorycalculus00greegoog/page/n9/mode/2up

[Anonymous No.17840063]

Calc 1 and 2 are easy. Brush up on some trig I guess.

[Anonymous No.17840085]

>>17840048
>greegoog

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[Anonymous No.17840096]

>>17840026
Organic Chemistry Tutor

[Anonymous No.17840098]

>>17840026
>have to survive calc 1 and 2
You're doing a biological science degree, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.17840104]

>>17840063
yeah the only thing that makes calc 2 a bitch are all the trig identities n shit

[Anonymous No.17840117]

>>17840098
C-C-Computer Science

[Anonymous No.17840129]

>>17840026
Step 1: stop being an anxious fag and live in the moment
Step 2: get friends so you can cheat off each other
Step 3: actually bother to learn the material
Step 4: don't bullshit around and actually learn the material by studying for a few hours a week in addition to the assigned material

Hundreds of thousands of kids have been in your situation so as long as you give a shit and outperform a third of your peers you'll be 100% fine. As always get good sleep, eat healthy, and party hard.

[Anonymous No.17840134]

>>17840117
HahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The absolute state of CStards.

[Anonymous No.17840140]

>>17840026
>Only two semesters of math
>doing a STEM degree
Jeez, and I felt like my Statistics degree was fake STEM because it was a joint-deparmental major with economics. What degree mill do you go to?

[Anonymous No.17840144]

>>17840140
I already have a handful of stat classes and discreet math.

[Anonymous No.17840159]

>>17840140
Not OP but I went to a top 25 school and my CS program was absolute garbage. Colleges are a scam. Get a degree anyway.
>>17840144
how was your discrete class? We had a dinosaur teaching it and it was ezpz.

[Anonymous No.17840162]

>>17840144
>stat classes that didn't have a calculus prereq
You didn't have stats classes.

[Anonymous No.17840167]

>>17840162
I only had to take Survey of Calc to take the Stat classes. This was as Info Sys.
I switched majors to CS and now I have to take Calc 1 and Calc 2.
Ironically the Info Sys program is statistically better than the CS one at my school...

[Anonymous No.17840169]

>>17840026
>survive Calc I and II
You’re fine, just made sure you get a competent prof, and do some problems every day. As long as you have a triple digit IQ, those classes are not difficult
t. graduated with a degree in electrical engineering

[Anonymous No.17840171]

>>17840026
>What books can I read to help me prepare, my foundations are pretty much solely college algebra.
A precalc class lmao

[Anonymous No.17840173]

>>17840026
Heres what 4chan said was good in 2015
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki/Math_Textbook_Recommendations

[Anonymous No.17840211]

post yfw american maths majors study topics your country does in highschool

[Anonymous No.17840228]

>>17840211
We are unironically spending too much money tard wrangling and playing daycare to get more advanced classes in high school. Switching schools to one that teaches calc 1, 2 and other AP courses was the best academic decision I've made.

[Anonymous No.17840898]

>>17840026
aren't STEM majors supposed to be good at math? I took that shit in highschool and i'm a fucking history major

[Anonymous No.17842337]

>>17840026
nigga calculus is the easiest thing in existence, just sit down and do the exercises in whatever book you're using

[Anonymous No.17842577]

>>17840034
Memorization only helps in remembering the methods to solve certain problems, but it all just comes down to experience. What do you mean by memorization, remembering what's the derivative of lnx?

[Anonymous No.17842967]

>>17840026
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22876442-no-bullshit-guide-to-math-and-physics

[Anonymous No.17844536]

>>17840026
Just use Apostol's or Spevak's books. Do the problems. If you are stuck look for the answers and try to understand them. That's pretty much it.

[Anonymous No.17844571]

>>17840129
Good advice on /lit/ for a change.

[Anonymous No.17844577]

>>17840026
>Calc 1 and 2.
That'd be differential and integral calculus, right?

[Anonymous No.17844675]

>>17840096
Dude gets right to it and you can pick up what you have to do to solve a problem mechanics-wise from him almost immediately.
Although, I wouldn't recommend him for understanding concepts, for the grindy stuff you *have* to know how to do, he's ace.
Certainly moggs the shit out of Sóyman Khan's videos kek (though I'll admit, his website is pretty good and I respect his work).

[Anonymous No.17844719]

>>17840211
Not every American college is the same tho.
I grew up in the hood and I studied calculus at my shitty public Highschool.
It is a shame that people spend time doing shit the should have learned how to do before but it's just how things have been going for the past few years.
IIRC, Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics comments on this phenomena in the preface (or rather, I believe it was created specifically to address this exact phenomena!!).
I was self-conscious about my public school education so I spent time studying to make up for it.

[Anonymous No.17844729]

>>17844719
>Not every American college is the same tho.
*Highschool

[Anonymous No.17844747]

>>17844719
>Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics
Is this book a /sci/ meme or is it actually worth reading if I can't into math?

[Anonymous No.17845854]

>>17844747
It's good, I'm sure there's probably better books but I didn't happen to read them.
It's as good a place as any to start and you could sure as fuck do worse, I can tell you that.

[Anonymous No.17845886]

>>17844747
>>17845854
I should add that I generally don't read just one text book but instead work on a little "book" of notes which pools all the info of the topic I'm reading from multiple sources into one book I wrote.
It's like you're doing a little research paper but don't have to bother giving proper citation (I generally do though anyway, just for later ease of reference).
I take proper notes on philosophical books and literature though.

[Anonymous No.17846026]

>>17844747
It's good.

[Anonymous No.17846218]

>>17840211
This

[Anonymous No.17846252]

>>17840034
This. I've lived this. Had to repeat a bunch of classes because memorization stopped working once I reached thermo. At that point, the trick is to outline textbooks before you read them, so you're not asking "what's the point? Why are we talking about this?" And instead you see how each method fits into an overall analytical technique and you focus on how similiar terms are actually very different and that makes the whole method strangely intuitive. But that still won't work with calc. Just memorize

[Anonymous No.17846325]

>>17842577
(ln(x(1+h)) - ln(x)) / (xh)
= ln(1+h)/(xh)
=1/x
since lim_(h->0) ln(1+h)/h = 1

[Anonymous No.17846733]

I don't get what's so filtering about calculus. You don't even have to prove anything yet, literally just following directions and memorization of trig identities.