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I'm starting to learn CS all over again at the old age of 40, and had the pleasure to rediscover mathematics thanks to: - Discrete Mathematics with Application

I'm starting to learn CS all over again at the old age of 40, and had the pleasure to rediscover mathematics thanks to: - Discrete Mathematics with Applications, by Susanna Epp, or - Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, by Kenneth Rosen (both have the same content, choose the style that you prefer), and - Concrete Mathematics, by our lord and savior Donald Knuth. I don't plan on reading TAOCP anymore as I would be dead by the time I finish reading everything else, but those introductory books are very good for beginners.

jesperlang 5y ago
I'm also approaching 40 and dusted of some old books from uni last year. One of which was about linear algebra, it was incredibly dense and proof heavy and I remember not understanding what I was doing, mostly remembering formulas. Then I watched 3Blue1Brown video series on linear algebra and things just clicked, almost 20 years after that first algebra class :) https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/linear-algebra https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/linear-algebra
Breza 5y ago
Fun fact: Knuth is a devout Lutheran and he recently led a church Bible study on the--I can't make this up--Bible book "Numbers."