Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
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Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum
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#27 non soft classes in a single summer is ambitious to say the least.
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#37 non soft classes in a single summer is ambitious to say the least.
Yeah, it is, its more of a loose goal, I'm doing research and working on finishing 2 Master's alongside it, so we'll see what happens! I really just want to learn and grow, so if it takes months or if it takes years, I'm in!
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#47 non soft classes in a single summer is ambitious to say the least.
It's ambitious, but it reads like he's taken most of them already.
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#5I did Strang's linear algebra course[0] (link goes to Youtube playlist of lectures) several years after graduating and recommend it highly. I was looking for refresher but I gained a deeper understanding of several important concepts; in particular it's fair to say I barely understood, or perhaps even misunderstood, SVD until Strang. If you're not sure if you need something like that, I suggest doing something like testing yourself on this video[1] or the MIT problem sets[2] it's easy to tell yourself that you "know" linear algebra when it would be closer to the truth to say that you used to know linear algebra, but can't answer even basic questions today. After Strang, Golub's book on Matrix Computations is also really incredible.[3]
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF3715C...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cll03FUxjuk
[2]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-fo...
[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Computations-Hopkins-Studies-Mathemat...
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#67 non soft classes in a single summer is ambitious to say the least.
Yeah, it is, its more of a loose goal, I'm doing research and working on finishing 2 Master's alongside it, so we'll see what happens! I really just want to learn and grow, so if it takes months or if it takes years, I'm in!
I admire your determination, really.
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#7A lot of these earlier courses are available on edX, too. The platform won't grade you unless you pay, though.
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#8While at it pick up Julia, another MIT product.
esp for applied math it's invaluable compared with python or matlab.
Juno is a nice ide, it's gotten a lot better over the last two months.
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#9Good luck man. I did a similar kind of thing at one point. A lot of the material is extremely boring and it’s really easy to skim it and pretend you know it in principle. You’ll see... it’s one of those things. The unbridled enthusiasm won’t let you acknowledge it but you know ifs true :) So IMO you’ve got to find some way of doing some exams somewhere.
In the end the only way I could find enough motive to get through a whole applied maths syllabus was to book myself for exams so that I could panic about failing and study.
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#10I did Strang's linear algebra course[0] (link goes to Youtube playlist of lectures) several years after graduating and recommend it highly. I was looking for refresher but I gained a deeper understanding of several important concepts; in particular it's fair to say I barely understood, or perhaps even misunderstood, SVD until Strang. If you're not sure if you need something like that, I suggest doing something like t…
I like Strang and have worked through some of his books but when I was first learning Linear Algebra, I preferred learning from Dr. Aviv Censor's videos on YouTube[0] from when he was teaching at Technion. It's a few dozen videos where he spends a lot of time going through each component of an introductory course on Linear Algebra.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefKXYYXT6I&list=PLW3u28VuDA...