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These are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pag
by vecter 9y ago
These are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pages of mathematics text" and also do a ton of problems, many of which will take hours and some which will require days of thinking.
I you aren't willing to invest the energy and effort to do that, all the video watching won't do anything for you. It will get you 5% of the way at best. The true learning comes from staring at a problem for hours, trying 100 dead ends, and then finally having an insight two days later while taking a shower that suddenly make that intractable problem seem trivial.
- mindcrime 9y agoThese are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pages of mathematics text" and also do a ton of problems, many of which will take hours and some which will require days of thinking. These things aren't mutually exclusive. I don't know about anybody else, but I'd rather watch a video of a human explaining the subject, then sit down with a textbook and start working through problems.
- vecter 9y agoOf course they're not, but OP kind of implied that it wasn't necessary to read a lot of pages of mathematics when he said > you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text Even if you watch those videos, you still need to sit through lots of pages of mathematics if you want to master the subject.