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Ask HN: Book Suggestions for Relearning Math
Hey, I'm looking for suggestions on a book to help relearn some math.
I went through engineering school and had to take many advanced math classes, but it's been enough years that I've forgotten much of what I had learned. I'm sure it is not all forgotten, it just needs to be reawoken.
I was considering picking up some textbooks, but then I remembered I didn't find them all that helpful back then so that is unlikely to have changed.
Maybe what I'm hoping for doesn't exist, but it would be great to find a book that does a high level overview of lots of different types of math and relates those to some real world scenarios. I've found this grokking algorithms book which has been helpful but I haven't found something analogous for mathematics.
If you know of any good books I would appreciate you sharing it.
- nightchalk16 5y agoProbably not what you are looking for, but i like these elementary books: Mathematics for the curious - Peter Higgins Mathematics rebooted - Lara Alcock Mathematics: a very short introduction - Timothy Gowers The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-essence-of-mathematics-through-elementary-problems https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-essence-of-...