/prog/ - How do I learn maths?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:17

I forgot maths. I did maths for my GCSEs and A-levels, but I did bad and I want to learn maths.

Is there any book that will teach me maths? I keep coming across books by K.A. Stroud. Are they good? Should I get those?

Keep in mind this is British maths, not American math, so if there are any differences, I would prefer the British version.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:18

Is that a joke along the lines "My head has no maths, how does it think?"

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:19

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No.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:20

Keep in mind this is British maths, not American math, so if there are any differences
So the notion of PI is different depending on the country you live in? And they told me math is universal! Fucking Jews!!!

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:25

>>4
s/math/maths

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:32

>>5
enjoying your autism?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 12:55

>>6
A real autist wouldn't have left that regex incomplete, and used [m] tags.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 13:20

why learn abstracte bullshite when ignorance is instantaneous?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 13:26

My autist learned abstracte bullshite, how goes his ignorance?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 13:40

SUCK YAHWEH'S HUGE COCK.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 13:44

>>2
Terrible^!

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 15:14

My algorithm performs a binary sort in O(n^2) time. How does he run?
Terrible!

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 15:18

Check out Khan Academy.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 16:30

>>13
Is this supposed to be ironic?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:13

>>14
Why would it? Math/CS students in university use that in addition to wikipedia all the fucking time

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:15

>>15
khan academy is non-rigorous crap for kindergarten.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:18

>>16
This. The only good math videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT although they are not substitutes for reading proofs/explanations in books.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:23

>>17
those videos look like crap too.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:29

>>18
check out these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/njwildberger/videos?view=0

alas author is Jewish :-(

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:33

>>19
not only jewish but crackpot too.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:39

Without absolute rigour, there is no mathematics.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:39

>>19
Gentiles in charge of mathematics.
Nizar please.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:40

>>19,22
you in charge of going back to /b/

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:42

In mathematics, as in programming, rigour must be absolute, mistakes must be punished by death.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:46

>>20
how exactly?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:47

>>24
rigour must be absolute, mistakes must be punished by death.
-- Joseph Stalin

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:47

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.:In mathematics, as in programming, rigour must be absolute, mistakes must be punished by death:.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:48

Programming is not for inferior beings like females.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:49

>2012
>not proving your software correct

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:52

>>29
this is what mathfags actually believe

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 17:56

>>29
/g/ is this way:

http://reddit.com/r/le

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 21:25

Why has nobody written an accurate online textbook yet?

We have fifty guides on learning FIOC such-and-such a way, why not an introductory math textbook using all the powers of INTEGRATED MATHML?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 22:38

>>32
MathML is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-25 22:49

>>29 confirmed Coqsucker

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-26 0:06

>>32
LaTeX might be cancerous shit but it's infinitely better than MathML.

>>35
Shalom, Cantor!

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-26 0:50

>>35
I wrote a LaTeX -> MathML converter in JS once. Lies. But I did modify a greasemonkey script that did for more convenient use on /sci/. It was used by quite a few people. I felt like a XARN.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-26 15:05

LaTeX:
x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}

MathML:

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">

  <apply><in/>

    <ci>x</ci>

    <set>

 

      <apply><divide/>

        <apply><plus/> <!-- upper root -->

          <apply><minus/>

            <ci>b</ci>

          </apply>

          <apply><root/>

            <apply><minus/>

              <apply><power/>

                <ci>b</ci>

                <cn>2</cn>

              </apply>

              <apply><times/>

                <cn>4</cn>

                <ci>a</ci>

                <ci>c</ci>

              </apply>

            </apply>

          </apply>

        </apply>

        <apply><times/>

          <cn>2</cn>

          <ci>a</ci>

        </apply>

      </apply>

 

      <apply><divide/>

        <apply><minus/> <!-- lower root -->

          <apply><minus/>

            <ci>b</ci>

          </apply>

          <apply><root/>

            <apply><minus/>

              <apply><power/>

                <ci>b</ci>

                <cn>2</cn>

              </apply>

              <apply><times/>

                <cn>4</cn>

                <ci>a</ci>

                <ci>c</ci>

              </apply>

            </apply>

          </apply>

        </apply>

        <apply><times/>

          <cn>2</cn>

          <ci>a</ci>

        </apply>

      </apply>

 

    </set>

  </apply>

</math>

ENTERPRISE QUALITY

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-26 15:17

g(a)^{y} = \int_{e}^{s}x\cdot dx

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-26 21:55

>>38
Took me a while to get it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-27 11:21

>>39
like pussy amirite

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