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Dumbass here who took three years off between high school and university, and was a lazy piece of shit in high school. To avoid wasting time I'd like to brush up on the math I should have paid attention to as opposed to be a worthless piece of shit. My absolute minimum goal is to be prepared first or second level calculus. I have a good grasp of first order logic, metalogic, some baby steps into set theory, etc.

My current plan is to go through relevant protions of Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, Lavrent'ev) followed up by at least most of Calculus (Spivak) and lots of lonely hours with a pad of paper and a TI-83.

Any suggestions?

>> No.1163586

tl;dr how do i math

>> No.1163595 [DELETED] 

>>1163568
www.anonmalk.se but with t instead of m in the middle b82cc39e254e6170be74abe586f5add3 7939

>> No.1163598

if you couldn't cut it in high school, stop wasting your time lying to yourself

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/careers.html

>> No.1163624

>>1163598
Hey, poor guy actually wants to make something of himself. It's called growing up and it happens later in some.
OP, just grab a book about what you want to learn and get reading and practicing... It's all there really is to say. I'd suggest go to a library and look at many books until you find one that suits you. Not all authors are the same, some explain things in ways that you'll understand better, some worse.

>> No.1163626

>>1163598

I cut it in high school, I just didn't do anything afterwards and need to bring myself back up to speed. THX

>> No.1163628

>Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, Lavrent'ev)
That's a very good one.

>> No.1163629

>>1163598
OWNED

>> No.1163640

khanacademy.org
go there

>> No.1163646

>>1163628

Thanks, that's the kind of input I was looking for. Flipping through it today I like its structure a lot.

Another way to look at this thread is helping a liberal arts faggot make a cross disciplinary man of himself.

>> No.1163715

>Discrete Mathematics by Rosen
Will give you the taste of different types of math yet to come.
>How to Prove it by Velleman
Will teach you how to write proofs and how to think about them.
>Apostol Calculus volume 1 and 2
Real Calculus. Everything is proven. This shit's serious. Now, if all you want is single-variable Calculus then do stick with Spivak. His book is just as serious and is actually better for self-studying.

By the way, Apostol's Calculus vol. 2 will also expose to you some differential equations and linear algebra. So you can actually dive straight into more advanced math after this - abstract algebra and analysis.

These were the books I used when I self-taught myself math. I was like you, OP, but had started a year after I graduated high school. I'm off to a top 5 school for computer science now.

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>>1163715

Thanks. Ironically proofs are one of the things I'm most comfortable with.

>> No.1163827

(>>1163628 here)

>>1163646
Hey OP in fact I'm very surprised that you're mentioning this book (you don't need a Calculus textbook on top of that, it's already the very best introductory book I'm aware of).
How did you know about it?

>> No.1163853

>>1163827

Simple research, aka just fucking google it. Decided to throw out what I found just to see what others thought.