What is your specific goal? What are you trying to achieve with math? I would start there first. If your goal is to get a math major level of understanding of math, then I would look at what the standard curriculum is in universities.
Ask HN: Can i learn Math
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#12I really don't mean to be rude, but you should work on your grammar and punctuation first. Being able to express yourself clearly is essential to any learning endeavor.
Because the question is perfectly clear, the comment is rude and unproductive. Please stop.
I beg to differ. It may not be enjoyable for OP to hear my criticism, but I insist that it is productive. You can't expect to go far in the professional world writing like that.
Again, I suspect OP is a bright guy (especially since he's trying to learn on his own!), but the way he writes does him a huge disservice.
Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math
#13I really don't mean to be rude, but you should work on your grammar and punctuation first. Being able to express yourself clearly is essential to any learning endeavor.
Because the question is perfectly clear, the comment is rude and unproductive. Please stop.
>i dont know nothing in math
So he knows a lot of math then!
Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math
#14What is your specific goal? What are you trying to achieve with math? I would start there first. If your goal is to get a math major level of understanding of math, then I would look at what the standard curriculum is in universities.
Math that can help me to be a good programmer.
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#15Can you watch a video for 15 minutes?
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#16I'd recommend some of the courses MIT have available. I recently used it to remind myself of some of the stuff on vectors that I needed for work.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
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#17"Math" is huge, and I mean HUGE - there's vast amounts of it, and most of it you won't care about, and is irrelevant to you. For most people, yes, you can learn math. In particular, you can learn the bits of math that are relevant, interesting, and useful. But for some parts of it, it won't be easy. Some parts you'll find obvious once it's explained to you in a way that suits how you think. Other parts will seem myst…
I said man i dont know anything in math.
Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math
#18It's never late to learn maths, particularly if you are really interested in it. I am 31, and last year I started to study remotely for BSc in Mathematics at Open University (UK). I really enjoy it, but you have to allocate time for it and stay disciplined. The same for you: you can start with
https://www.khanacademy.org/math at your own pace. My advice for you is to set clear goals, scopes you want to cover during some time period, and allocate time for study in your schedule. These preparations can help you to stay on track. Don't torture yourself, make it fun. Good luck!
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#19Speaking from experience as I taught myself math at the age of 25, it is not too late to start. I would recommend starting from set theory and combinatorics, which do not require any advanced math knowledge and will help improving your critical thinking.
Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math
#20What is your specific goal? What are you trying to achieve with math? I would start there first. If your goal is to get a math major level of understanding of math, then I would look at what the standard curriculum is in universities.
Math that can help me to be a good programmer.
All areas of math are heavily inter-related, and skills you learn in one thing that seems irrelevant can often have a huge benefit where you don't expect it. Skills in simple algebra help in Graph Theory, which is used in understanding networks and databases, and skills in calculus are surprisingly useful in topology, which ends up being used in robotics and machine
learning.
Linear Algebra is the language of almost all machine learning, simple geometry and trigonometry are useful in graphics and other aspects of design.
Math, as I said elsewhere, is huge, and there is no single thing that will, by itself, help you to be a good programmer.
If you really have absolutely no math at all then you need to start with some basics, and Khan Academy is a good resource to explore first.