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This is a very good book. It is true that one does not need more than "a high school mathematics background", in the sense that you don't need to know advanced
by fspeech 10y ago
This is a very good book. It is true that one does not need more than "a high school mathematics background", in the sense that you don't need to know advanced technical stuff. But to really appreciate it one needs some maturity and sophistication that a standard high school curriculum is unlikely to provide.
- dominotw 10y agoI studied abstract algebra without much difficulty and I never even took calculus. I just had to wrap my mind around how to think about proofs ( not much different than thought process of figuring out the code you are writing actually works and is consistent). This the best math book ever( I dislike math) : http://www.amazon.com/Book-Abstract-Algebra-Second-Mathematics/dp/0486474178/ http://www.amazon.com/Book-Abstract-Algebra-Second-Mathemati...