i remember a while back seeing on this board a link to a website where some kind of graduate/professor had set up like a kind of 'guide' or do-it-yourself method to learning maths from the ground up. it was all categorized and chronologically ordered and had links and references about where to best learn things blah blah blah all that.
anyway, i had the page bookmarked and lost all my bookmarks recently. i was wondering if anyone has any idea at all about what i'm talking about. i understand it's a pretty vague description, but i think if anyone is on the same page as me they'll know what i mean.
if no one can help with this, then could i get any assistance in finding such a place? where i can get an introduction (to even the most basic algebra, just to refresh my memory) and kind of linearly progress along.
The BBC have a site where a few of the articles are surprisingly well-informed (though quite a few are also shite). It's less of a DIY maths course than a layman's introduction, but I've taken a shine to it. Looks like it might be user-submitted, too.
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Anonymous2009-11-17 6:44
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yeah this is definitely along the lines of what i'm looking for. the main differences is in the structure of it all though. the website im talking about was set up with defined structure and purpose by the professor. it had aims and made any supplementary material available to you.
I also have this pdf encyclopedia of math I downloaded years ago, but I forgot the source.
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Anonymous2009-11-18 23:45
If you want to learn things properly, so you can really understand more advanced things, you won't be able to learn just from the internet. If you already know calculus (actually, this isn't so important) and have a little exposure to proof-based math (this *is*), I'd buy/borrow these books if I were you, probably in this order:
They're all by Serge Lang, a very good and popular textbook author. The first is a pretty gentle introduction to more advanced math, and the other two will teach you the bare essentials of what you'll need to study more advanced things.
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Anonymous2009-11-19 13:31
If you want to learn things properly, so you can really understand more advanced things, you won't be able to learn just from the internet.
If course you will. There are books on the internet you know. It's not as if printed material is magically better from an educational point of view than the same material on your screen. And all this knowledge IS available out there (on the internet), let me assure you.
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Anonymous2009-11-19 13:45
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Would you really want to read a book by a guy who denies AIDS?
Dumbass. I didn't mean that reading a physical book is somehow better than reading the same book in a .pdf or .djvu, I meant that working through a book written by a real mathematician is a shitton better than reading wikipedia or wolfram.