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Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math

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That's pretty advanced for someone who claims to know absolutely nothing about math.

mmm... depends what country you grew up in. But I'll say if you can do derivatives, you know some math, up to that, you know of math.

Exactly - the OP says he knows no math at all, so a video talking about derivatives is way out of reach.

Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math

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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.

Math that can help me to be a good programmer.

For some reason, no one here has mentioned discrete math.

Discrete math is the branch that is most likely to make you a better programmer. Not Kahn academy, etc.

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs70/fa15/

Re: Ask HN: Can i learn Math

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Math that can help me to be a good programmer.

That in itself is quite an interesting question - there are bits of (quite simple) maths that are useful in general programming (logic etc.), maths that can be used in particular domain areas (simulation, crypto etc.), maths that models computation itself and can underlie the design of languages (Turing Machines, Lambda Calculus etc.)...

Discrete math would be the most relevant branch for CS.
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