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introduction to maths

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-16 12:35

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.

I KNOW IT EXISTS IM NOT INSANE

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-18 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:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Undergraduate-Mathematics/dp/0387962050/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258605555&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Undergraduate-Analysis-Texts-Mathematics/dp/0387948414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258605473&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Undergraduate-Algebra-Texts-Mathematics/dp/0387220259/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258605755&sr=8-1

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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