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Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
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Re: Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
#42This really depends on a lot of factors. You might get a lot out if illustrated works, such the Cartoon Guides ... series. You might benefit from kid-friendly, fun books, like The Number Devil or Alice in Quantum Land. Or you might benefit enormously from looking for "chapter books" on the subjects -- books filled with paragraphs of actual English instead of endless formulas. This might include something like A Tour Of The Calculus or various things about math history or biographies of mathy people.
It depends on why you seem to be "missing" something and your post doesn't actually give any insight into what seems to be missing for you.
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#43I'm building a math practice site covering topics from simple arithmetic to second order differential equations. The idea is that to get better at (or intuit) math you have to practice. I'm trying to incorporate some Skinner Box techniques to make studying easier. I hope it's helpful and I'd love to hear your feedback: https://studycounts.com
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#443Blue1Brown videos are awesome: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
His videos are great.
His whole channel is also on LBRY if you don't like YouTube https://beta.lbry.tv/@3Blue1Brown
Re: Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
#45Related question, anyone know any good resources for learning and developing intuition in Abstract Algebra? Especially ones that explain it well, like Calculus Made Easy did for Calculus. AA is a prereq for cryptography, category theory and and other areas of interest for CompSci. I asked this a few weeks ago but at an off peak time and not many folks saw the question. But I know HN probably has good recommendations…
Take a look at "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter. It's published by Dover, so very affordable. I've seen it criticized as too verbose, but that worked for me.
Thanks! Verbose is fine, the more explanatory the better.
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Re: Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
#47Just go to khan academy and practice your basics and more.
Re: Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
#48Just go to "khan academy" and practice your basics and more.
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#493Blue1Brown videos are awesome: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
The video on L'Hopital's rule, and the one on Fourier transform, helped me intuitively understand those topics for the very first time ever. And I'm years out of school and have no need to use those concepts in work again, yet I watched them just to understand what was always a mystery to me in class at the time.
Re: Ask HN: Best resources to gain math intuition?
#50Plug, but I have a blog for exactly this. As an EE/physics student you may appreciate this one on Euler's Formula: https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding...
Kalid ,
Your post on the magic of “e” still remains etched in my memory. Kudos to what you are doing :-). Nice book, too!