/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16038574
My first recommendation when it comes to books is to stop being retarded. A good book, you will pour through it for a long time, you will go back even afterwards and reduce it atomically. You will probably scan through lots of early books which are fucking shit and probably never have the feeling to go back because it's not fucking necessary.
I have never read a proofs book, I never even took a proofs class in college. Direct proof, induction, contradiction, construction, helpers, and these basic techniques can carry you into most of advanced mathematics.
Maybe you need a few sentences on shorthand symbols, qualifier order, and equivalencies and maybe relations in general, but nothing will be better than the experience. SO JUST START.
A lot of those "beginner" books are a waste of time, they're too retarded, or they're way too abstract for someone with low mathematical maturity. Some of them might be good references, or supplementation but only LATER ON. Only when you find yourself in a position to require that.
ESPECIALLY stay away from foundational schizophrenia as a beginner.
If you know calculus from high school then don't read a book called "advanced calculus" unless it's literally about advanced calculus techniques that might be useful to you, but it's not an essential at all.
I think that after high school elementary linear algebra is a good place to start it'll bring out your maturity and it's a great exercise in algebra, and it usually exposes you to tools like set theory and usually very easy proofs.
be careful a lot of LA books are shitted because they appeal to retarded engineers or even more retarded "C""S" students.