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How do you develop advanced mathematical skills when all you have is basic arithmetic skills from primary school? How do you take those basics to a truly advanced level where your thought have their own language, i.e. Mathematics?

  • I recently had a realization that how much i would have enjoyed Mathematics only if i had an inspiring teacher and a little less pressure of scoring As. I think that Mathematics is the only true language of universe and how much would i miss if I didn't learn it in its true essence, the ability to look at problems and express their solutions. I am also keen on improving/expanding my rational thinking and ability to program. Where should I begin? How should I approach it?

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    Begin by finding something that interests you, then dig into it however you can.  The idea of setting a fixed curriculum for this sort of thing isn't really productive.  Schools set curricula to make sure that everyone's learning the bare minimum, not because it's somehow helpful to individual students to make them learn specific things in specific orders at specific times. Personally, one of the first parts of math I really enjoyed thinking about was basic enumerative combinatorics.  I think I had some kids' books that explained what a factorial was and so forth, though I have no idea where they are now or what they were.  I'd also talk about those sorts of things with my parents as a kid, which helped.  (Having someone to talk to makes learning a lot easier, and it's one of the first things you should try to secure.)

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You might look through the Khan Academy free online videos, here's a page for beginning algebra (or you could look at whatever builds on what you know, including programming tutorials): https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra If you want some free-form conceptual puzzle-solving expansion of your knowledge, Martin Gardner's monthly columns, in Scientific American over the decades, Mathematical Games, have been collected into many books offering solid but little-known solutions to fun problems. Here's a page that offers some description of the fifteen books published so far: http://www.ansible.co.uk/misc/mgardner.html

Douglas Currens

Start leaning calculus, glean an in depth knowledge of differential equations and all other stuff pertaining to calculus. After you have done that then enroll in this course. https://www.udacity.com/course/cs222 Your perception of the quantum reality of the world will change.Mathematics is like the nectar of heaven but when you are not able to visualize its applications in real life then it becomes dull. Learn things about mathematical logic , mathematical modelling. There is a course on http://coursera.com on mathematical thinking , watch its videos. It will help you a lot. Now, this is a path that i think will be best suitable for you. You are welcome to differ but while you are learning any kind of mathematics, you need to remember few things that mathematics study requires. 1) Perseverance 2) Regularity "What is mathematics, really" is recommended reading for you.

Shivam Gupta

I'm like you last time, have been searching for ways to learn mathematics; I suggest you go to this site http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/    ;  print the lecture notes in booklet form, start learning college algebra, calculus 1,2,3 differentiation equation and linear algebra ; it is standard maths courses for computer science and engineering student at good university.

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