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markhkim

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About markhkim

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    Congratulations on graduating high school. That's quite exciting, and I'm sure you'll love university. The about page states that the book is for "an intermediate level (i.e., afte…

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    Comment #17392208

    You can't have calculus without the real numbers, and you can't have asymptotic analysis and probability theory without calculus. There goes the whole field of the analysis of algo…

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    Nobody teaches the same topic in the exactly the same way. There is, for one, far more material in any given subject than an introductory course or textbook can (or should) cover, …

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    Taste, you say? The Princeton Companion is your friend: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10592.html

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    This was part of a collection of four essays on mathematical writing, commissioned by the American Mathematical Society: The committee was authorized by the Council of the American…

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    I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet: make sure to talk to your professor, frequently. Introductory analysis courses exist primarily to teach a certain way of thinking, and ther…

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    Even mental exercises could use a purpose. What are you interested in? Try to keep an end goal in mind. If you want to learn more about machine learning, it might be an idea to sta…

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    eh, I posit that you already understand induction and just don't know that you do. "So many CS educated juniors" being uncomfortable with recursion is not an argument against under…

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