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My advice would be to start with some books you can understand and then build up there towards your goal. It may take a couple of years, but the time used are going to be paid back in masses when you hit other math problems: They suddenly got easier too!
Shameless self-promotion, but I write about math in an intuitive way here: http://betterexplained.com I think the key is realizing that math is about manipulating a mental model of an idea. The wrong model can make certain tasks impossible -- for example, thinking that numbers must be 1-dimensional makes complex numbers a paradox. But when you see that they could represent items in 2 dimensions, you see how complex n…
This site is awesome. It helped me unscrew my understanding of complex numbers.
Shameless self-promotion, but I write about math in an intuitive way here: http://betterexplained.com I think the key is realizing that math is about manipulating a mental model of an idea. The wrong model can make certain tasks impossible -- for example, thinking that numbers must be 1-dimensional makes complex numbers a paradox. But when you see that they could represent items in 2 dimensions, you see how complex n…
I have pointed many of my friends at your site; it's a wonderful resource. Thanks for taking the time to make betterexplained - the world is a better place with it existing.
Shameless self-promotion, but I write about math in an intuitive way here: http://betterexplained.com I think the key is realizing that math is about manipulating a mental model of an idea. The wrong model can make certain tasks impossible -- for example, thinking that numbers must be 1-dimensional makes complex numbers a paradox. But when you see that they could represent items in 2 dimensions, you see how complex n…
I had never heard of this site before. All of these articles look really interesting! There goes my weekend.
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