| ▲ | el_benhameen 7 hours ago |
| Not exactly your main point, but where’d you go to learn calculus? I did the usual classes in high school but none since, and I’d love to develop a better appreciation for it. |
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| ▲ | zlarin 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Check out Mosaic Calculus and see what you think: https://www.mosaic-web.org/MOSAIC-Calculus/. It's a free resource and it takes an interesting perspective on calculus pedagogy. |
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| ▲ | ccapitalK 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53... is his essence of calculus series, I found the visualizations made it a lot easier to grok. |
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| ▲ | cosmosgenius 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I can second 3blue1brown as intro, but anything practical needs practise. Get your local 12th grade or undergrad math book which has problems to solve will bring more focus and faster learning. Have a list of problems to solve in your head while learning theory has been faster for me than just learning theory. |
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| ▲ | cogman10 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I got mine doing a computer engineering degree. My suggestion is using Khan Academy if you want to better your math knowledge. It's really quiet good for that sort of thing. It was just starting to take off when I finished my degree. I wish it was available before then. |
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| ▲ | jihadjihad 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Calculus for Dummies is surprisingly not bad. |
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| ▲ | MarcelOlsz 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No offence to everyone else in this thread but the holy grail is truly The Art Of Problem Solving textbooks + mathacademy [0]. [0] https://www.mathacademy.com/ |
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| ▲ | HDThoreaun 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Learning stuff that doesn’t help in work(calculus is not helpful for 99% of software engineering) is really hard if you don’t base it in reality I find. Maybe it’s just me but I would never read a text book for fun so suggesting learning by reading a text book seems crazy. Calculus can be fun and interesting but the teacher has to actively try to make it so. The learning will take longer but you’re more likely to see it through and I think it’s more likely to stick long term too. I learned way more reading crafting interpreters than I did in my compiler class for example. | | |
| ▲ | throwaway31131 an hour ago | parent [-] | | That’s interesting because I can’t imagine learning a subject without a textbook. I have a hard time believing another medium would have the depth and density to get all the points across. Although it does depend on the subject matter and one’s learning goals. But I also do read textbooks for fun… Now that I have a few decades of experience in a lot of these subjects I get way more out of the books. And I can start to understand more of the meta information. Like, of all the things the author could’ve used as an example, why did they pick that. Also, it’s hugely interesting for me to look at the homework problems and theorize why this particular problem was picked. Especially fun for electrical engineering books. But ya, I’m weird like that. |
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| ▲ | david38 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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