Just take community college courses. Work lots of problems. Ignore the grand theorems unless you're going to be a math major (in which case you should go to col

Just take community college courses. Work lots of problems. Ignore the grand theorems unless you're going to be a math major (in which case you should go to college). Applied math; if you deal with matter it will generally be linear algebra and differential equations. Vector math important also, and Calc-3 is inadequate; junior level classical physics mechanics book is how I learned stuff like action angle and rotating frames of reference. If you deal with electronics/signal processing you'll need some kind of Hilbert space course to get you through Greens functions, Laplace transforms and so on. And for computer science/machine learning/OR: just be really good at linear algebra. (Applied obv) linear algebra is the highest leverage thing you can do.