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Thanks for the tip :) I'll explore that. Do you have any recommendations for textbooks to sink my teeth into?

by jwdunne 11y ago

Jtsummers 11y ago
Unfortunately, not much. I was pondering that after my post. It's been a long time since I was a math student, and professionally it's had zero to do with my career. A lot of books ended up boxed up at my parents' home as I moved around a number of times right after college. I'll check my own home tonight to see what I still have, but my shelves these days are mostly filled with fiction, programming, RPG, and history books. EDIT: Off the top of my head, for CS: Introduction to Algorithms: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms Introduction to the Theory of Computation: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michael-Sipser/dp/113318779X http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae... Math: Calculus Made Easy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312185480?ref_=cm_lmf_tit_5 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312185480?ref_=cm_lmf_tit_... - I'm really not sure how good this one is for a beginner, I picked it up while assisting my sister in refreshing her calculus skills for grad school (Aerospace Engineering) I can't remember the algebra and geometry textbooks (my dad's or my grandfather's) that I used, in addition to the assigned text, in high school. Anything by Knuth. Seriously, one summer a professor and I just picked up copies of Concrete Mathematics and worked through large portions of it for fun. Technically I got some math credits for it, but it was really just because we wanted to. Actually, this one helped me a lot with understanding calculus. Somehow, up to that point while I knew calculus, may brain had never made the connection that integration was summation until I saw the discrete counterpart to continuous integration. I had a mechanical understanding, but no deep understanding until that moment.

Thanks for the tip :) I'll explore that. Do you have any recommendations for textbooks to sink my teeth into?

by jwdunne 11y ago

Thanks for the tip :) I'll explore that. Do you have any recommendations for textbooks to sink my teeth into?

Unfortunately, not much. I was pondering that after my post. It's been a long time since I was a math student, and professionally it's had zero to do with my career. A lot of books ended up boxed up at my parents' home as I moved around a number of times right after college. I'll check my own home tonight to see what I still have, but my shelves these days are mostly filled with fiction, programming, RPG, and history books. EDIT: Off the top of my head, for CS: Introduction to Algorithms: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms Introduction to the Theory of Computation: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michael-Sipser/dp/113318779X http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Michae... Math: Calculus Made Easy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312185480?ref_=cm_lmf_tit_5 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312185480?ref_=cm_lmf_tit_... - I'm really not sure how good this one is for a beginner, I picked it up while assisting my sister in refreshing her calculus skills for grad school (Aerospace Engineering) I can't remember the algebra and geometry textbooks (my dad's or my grandfather's) that I used, in addition to the assigned text, in high school. Anything by Knuth. Seriously, one summer a professor and I just picked up copies of Concrete Mathematics and worked through large portions of it for fun. Technically I got some math credits for it, but it was really just because we wanted to. Actually, this one helped me a lot with understanding calculus. Somehow, up to that point while I knew calculus, may brain had never made the connection that integration was summation until I saw the discrete counterpart to continuous integration. I had a mechanical understanding, but no deep understanding until that moment.