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Re: Ask HN: What are the best general math workbooks?

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Post by mejutoco »

purpleblue wrote: post #6

Art of Problem Solving has a great high school math curriculum with exercises. It also has an online math question component called "Alcumus" that you can use as well.

Cannot speak highly enough of this recommendation. This will give you a clear picture of your progress and make you confident about the type of problems you can solve.

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Post by shrvtv »

lostinparadise wrote: post #9

Variations of this exact question are asked so often. Have you tried searching about it? hn.algolia.com

Variations of "How do I learn math?"? Yes, absolutely. Variations of anything math-related but not textbooks or courses? Heck no. It would be foolish of me to ask HN something that is publicly avaliable on the internet.

For example, that's how I found out about mathtutordvd.com in a comment thread for a three year old reddit post.

I have spend a few evenings looking for information on math workbooks, but there just isn't enough of it.

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Post by bordercases »

jimhefferon wrote: post #10

My Linear Algebra https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html comes with lots of exercises in each section, from easy to (a few) pretty hard. There is a book of worked solutions that covers all exercises. It is free so if you download it (and the solutions) and you find that it doesn't suit then no harm done. There is no platform, no way of having the computer check your answers (if that is what you mean). For thin…

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Post by srvmshr »

jimhefferon wrote: post #10

My Linear Algebra https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html comes with lots of exercises in each section, from easy to (a few) pretty hard. There is a book of worked solutions that covers all exercises. It is free so if you download it (and the solutions) and you find that it doesn't suit then no harm done. There is no platform, no way of having the computer check your answers (if that is what you mean). For thin…

I am glad to find you here. I did do some practice problems on rusty topics from your textbook 2-3 years ago. Thanks for putting it together

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Post by nebula8804 »

mapierce2 wrote: post #13

Paul's Online Math Notes https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu He's got a healthy amount of exercises for each topic with worked out solutions, both inside the notes (as examples) and as practice/assignment problems. I've found that his exercises/examples don't pull punches.

Oh my god, this took me on a nostalgia trip. I am near tears seeing this site again. I was a terrible CS student in university. I had failed all my classes(Math, Physics, CS) my first semester at engineering school, got placed on probation and ended up dropping out into community college. There I continued to struggle but when I discovered Paul's online notes I started to turn things around eventually getting back into that Engineering school and graduating with a respectable 3.3 GPA(don't look at my disaster of a transcript though). I still wasn't great academically and not putting in 100% effort stand among one of my greatest regrets in life but the feeling of sitting down and studying with friends using Paul's online notes was a memorable moment during my university days. It was a care free world (other than anxiety over test grades) just me, my friends, and Paul's online notes and then going to the local Chinese buffet after all of us passed our midterms with at least a C.

I never really felt like I internalized the concepts rather just constantly barely being above water prepping for tests and a school like NJIT is not as kind towards plug and chug learning as community colleges are but still these guides will help you study better and it lead me to better appreciating all of these concepts years down the line even though I didn't fully internalize all of them.

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Post by autoexec »

jimhefferon wrote: post #10

My Linear Algebra https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/index.html comes with lots of exercises in each section, from easy to (a few) pretty hard. There is a book of worked solutions that covers all exercises. It is free so if you download it (and the solutions) and you find that it doesn't suit then no harm done. There is no platform, no way of having the computer check your answers (if that is what you mean). For thin…

> It is free so if you download it (and the solutions) and you find that it doesn't suit then no harm done.

Not entirely free. It does seem to require you to give an email address to OpenIntro. I'm guessing they send a download link there, but the site does promise to spam you, keep your data indefinitely, and share (read sell) it if they decide that doing so furthers "the mission of OpenIntro"

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