Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 18:27:35 UTC No. 16217428

>>16217376
That's a good beginner book to stick with. Post the problems you have here. Gelfand's books are very good.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 18:55:40 UTC No. 16217575

>>16217376
game programing teaches you more about trig than any textbook will

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 19:03:06 UTC No. 16217608

>>16217575
This is a really dumb comment, and his problems aren't even trig.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 19:14:23 UTC No. 16217649

>>16217608
all algebra is geometry. and all geometry is trig

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:20:05 UTC No. 16217899

Take the Russian mathematician pill. Do Spivak Calculus. It hurt your feelings? Too bad. Get better.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:46:02 UTC No. 16217984

>>16217376
If it's any consolation, struggling a lot while working through a math textbook is normal. Something I had to learn pretty early on in uni is that some pages you can get through in a few minutes while others can take you multiple hours. Same goes with exercises.

There is such a thing as working through too hard of a textbook w.r.t. your mathematical maturity, so you want to find a book that is sufficiently challenging but not impossible. That being said, there are concepts in every book (and across every topic of math) that I didn't get the first time around, so another legitimate strategy whenever you're stuck trying to figure something out (like when you've been sitting with a single definition for an hour or two and it's not sinking in) is to move on. Sometimes seeing the definition in practice (either in an exercise or in a theorem) is what makes things click.

Luckily for you, as you're learning elementary algebra, there are a lot of resources online like Khan Academy (and YouTube videos) that work out basically every type of problem you can find. Use these if you aren't having fun trying to figure it out anymore.

I think the main takeaway here is that math is hard for everyone so don't get discouraged. Try to find a balance between giving yourself enough time to really attempt something and looking up solutions. Some problems take hours to figure out the first time you see them and that's fine.

Happy to give more concrete advice on request. Good luck with your studies anon.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 20:56:08 UTC No. 16218001

there's no such thing as learning math

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 21:24:22 UTC No. 16218064

>>16217899
He's reading Israel Gelfand. He HAS taken the Russian pill retard. The problem is that he's trying to spit it out.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 21:27:32 UTC No. 16218067

>>16218064
>Algebra book
Russians come out of the womb knowing algebra. NGMI

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 21:31:19 UTC No. 16218075

>>16218067
True, but Gelfand wrote these books for Amercians, because he thought American education system was completely shit, so he, a prominent mathematician, decided to remedy this by writing to an elementary audience.

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 12:44:44 UTC No. 16219515

>>16217376
You need to do exercises, but you don't need to correctly solve them.
If you are, relative to your endgoal, at point 60% of your math journey, the struggles in the first 10% will feel trivial even if you haven't gotten a single right answer.

Vard at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 12:52:34 UTC No. 16219530

>>16217376
You may have only half an hour left. I'm on to something today. Good. Cause I'll be a richer man. Your thoughts on this don't bother me - you're nothing. I just wanna get richer.

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 12:59:37 UTC No. 16219540

>>16217376

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:15:37 UTC No. 16219575

>>16217376
Look you dribbling simpleton, ask yourself these basic fucking questions.
1) Which part of the world I'm I currently living.
2) Go find the "quality" schools in your district.
3) Find out what math books they use.
4) Buy them or pirate them.
5) Read.
6) Learn.
7) Goto 5, until achieve goal.
8) Goto 1 for next level up.
Do this for all age ranges of math learning.
It's not difficult, but we all know you're a sex offender information farming. Still, try it anyways. You might actually fucking learning something. Spastic.

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:47:51 UTC No. 16219627

>>16219575
This. I am a bio major and I wanted to self-learn calculus and a bit more stats than my degree offers. I just took a look at the courses math and physics majors take, checked what is the recommended course book and other recommended reading.

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 17:15:30 UTC No. 16220130

>>16217428
what’s next after russian precalc? Piskunov? Tarasov? Korovkin? Zorich?

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:29:06 UTC No. 16220884

>>16217376
I'd say just do khan academy

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:41:53 UTC No. 16221651

>>16220130
After Russian precalc you go to Gulag

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:16:55 UTC No. 16221688

>>16217376
This book is rather fascinating.

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 10:40:01 UTC No. 16221707

I've been told that mathematics was mostly done with geometric calculations before we had advanced algorithms and calculators, even in modern times the concepts started from a visual idea. Is there some practical"history" of math book? I'd like to see the visual, irl origin of the theorems we take for granted.

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:31:12 UTC No. 16221732

>>16217376
>from Israel Gelfand and I feel like a retard, the problems given feel very hard
Same for me, but solving them feels more satisfying.