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Sup /sci/,

How do I get into maths? I finally realize that if I ever want to deeply understand the questions I have I need to deeply understand math. Where do I begin? Where do I continue? Should I read the works of Euler and Laplace, or should I just read text books?

>> No.4932950

Don't have any suggestions for you at the moment but you should probably include your current mathematical education to this point so that people know what to suggest for you.

>> No.4932963

http://www.southernct.edu/~fields/GIAM/GIAM.pdf

This is what I've been using. It's worked well for me so far.

>> No.4932971

Someone from here suggested me to read "A mathematician's lament" by Paul Lockhart on a thread I made asking what was pure math. Haven't read it all yet (it's really short but been kinda busy) but I can recommend you to read it too, OP.

Have any of you read it? What are your thoughts about it?

>> No.4932990

I would definitely suggest taking a Discrete Mathematics course or at least getting a textbook on it.

I took it for fun and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's a sort of intro to proof/logic course that covers a lot of fields of math at the same time.

It's definitely not like your conventional Algebra/Calculus courses, so you don't need to worry too much about background knowledge.

>> No.4933008

>>4932990 , here

Didn't see this post, but yeah this is Discrete Math
>>4932963

This is a pretty good textbook too.

>> No.4933025

OP, what questions do you seek the answers to?

>>4932971

Yes, I have read it, it's great. There's also an expanded book version which I have not read and it's worth noting that Paul Lockhart was an Astronaut with a PHD and not just some random hack.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinating-Imaginative/dp/1934137170

There are many math people who want to overhaul how mathematics are taught that support it. These guys for example link to a bunch of neat stuff on their site.
http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/MathematiciansLament

Formalists and philosophers hate it.

>> No.4933036

>>4932950
Basic pleb tier. Highest I've taken is Calc 2.

>> No.4933046

>>4933025
>>4932990
>>4932963
Thank you all for the suggestions. I just enrolled in a discrete math class for the fall at Uni.

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4933597

>>4932913
>Curie on that pic

>> No.4933778

dont start with originals by euler and so on, they didnt practice a very strict style of proving sometimes.
id suggest to buy the books that your local universities use, but you will need your school knowledge to understand them and it could get a bit hard.

>> No.4933786

>>4933046
the basis of higher math is

real analysis
abstract algebra

then go on to

complex analysis, more abstract algebra

then

topology, more abstract algebra

>> No.4933809

>>4933597
is this a beard?