You need a good tutor. I suggest finding a math major at a local university to teach you. The problem is that, from what I can infer from your description, you don't have the fundamental skills necessary to self-tech effectively. You could try using some of the resources mentioned by other commenters, but chances are this process will much more tedious than if you had a mentor, and you'll probably come to believe var…
Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
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Re: Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
#52You need a good tutor. I suggest finding a math major at a local university to teach you. The problem is that, from what I can infer from your description, you don't have the fundamental skills necessary to self-tech effectively. You could try using some of the resources mentioned by other commenters, but chances are this process will much more tedious than if you had a mentor, and you'll probably come to believe var…
Re: Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
#53It will take time so go at your own pace and enjoy yourself!
Re: Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
#54https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/teaching/cs202-spring05/sli...
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#55Undergrad discrete mathematics and symbolic logic made proof writing click for me. You have a set of things known to be true as handed down from on high, you have a set of operations to transform those true things into equivalent statements, you then go about the work of using those transformations to connect true statements together into a massive graph and extend that graph through speculation if possible. With tha…
Re: Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
#56Multiply both sides by a
xa/a = ba/c; a ≠ 0
Simplify
x = ba/c; a ≠ 0
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#59We used it in our intro proofs class in undergrad and it will get you from basic logic to introductory analysis.