By recommend, I mean content you actually find to be high quality, well done, and easy to absorb and follow. By relearn, I mean I have forgotten everything I ever learned in high school.
By recommend, I mean content you actually find to be high quality, well done, and easy to absorb and follow. By relearn, I mean I have forgotten everything I ever learned in high school.
On a related note, what math should one know? Are there any upsides to go beyond everyday math? To brush up on lost math skills? I’ve forgotten most of my math classes, as I wager most have…
I make my living doing pretty basic math that people are too lazy to learn or too afraid of. Financial simulations and shit like that. Pays to understand at least the most basic probability, statistics, calculus. I used to rely quite a bit on dynamical systems theory and linear algebra, but that was years ago now. To be fair, you also need to learn to code this shit up, but that’s not hard, either.
Well, I am about to move into a business analyst role, so I’m figuring maybe it can’t hurt for that either.
I feel like there are some interesting ideas in pure math topics like Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, etc. Although I’m terrible at actually writing proofs and such.
Formalizing e.g. limit is quite interesting! Limit is related to tendency; sequence x_n converging to x means for large enough n, x_n is sufficiently close to x. That is, you can choose N such that | x_n - x | < eps for n >= N. In some sense, you are concretely defining what rough terms mean!
To look into these, you can read through books disregarding proofs. While proofs do hold ideas, they can be headache-inducing.
Personally speaking, I absolutely suck at math. It was and continues to be my worst subject. Likely to do with my adhd.
I was only able to really get up to and through basic algebra and some geometry in school. Past that, nothing else. I do fine. I’d say thats the minimum unless your in a field that requires a higher level of math.