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I'm talking about the actual math problems being worked out.

I had a ton of math 20+ years ago and I am going to try and relearn all of it for critical thinking and go beyond what I knew 20 years ago.

I cannot believe that I gave up studying all of the subjects that I took to stay sharp. I suppose that is what most of us do after the course is over. I feel like I've lost a major part of myself.

10 years ago I bought all of the texts required to pursue degrees(PhD, MS and BS) in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics. Cost was well over $750.

Now I'm thinking of buying all of the texts required to pursue a PhD in Management Information Systems. I only have a BS in this area but I figure if I put in the time, I'll learn quite a bit.

Anyway....the question is MATH. Do you watch videos to learn math? (College Algebra, Linear Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus, Differential Equations, Etc...)
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Are you familiar with Khan Academy?
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TomAiello wrote:
Wed Feb 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Are you familiar with Khan Academy?
Yes! Great material. I try to get as much math as I can from every resource. I'm subscribed too and watch as much of all of the math channels as I can on YouTube and Odysee.

I just went back to the uni I graduated from and I think I'll buy all the books in Information Systems up through MS for a few programs and start cramming. I feel that I need to do this to reconnect with my major and all of the subjects that I studied. There is no way that I'd go back to college for another degree.
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Math not so much, although everything is math and math is everything, it both fascinates and bores me to tears at the same time.

I do enjoy physics though. Just depends on what context we're talking about.
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Naperville wrote:
Wed Feb 16, 2022 9:26 pm
I'm subscribed too and watch as much of all of the math channels as I can on YouTube and Odysee.
Not really related, but I vastly prefer Odysee to Youtube.

It's amazing how much you can learn from on line videos. Practically anything you want to know or do has a 'how to' video somewhere online.
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I am nerd curious. Love these videos that you can get lost in.
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Naperville wrote:
Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:14 pm

I cannot believe that I gave up studying all of the subjects that I took to stay sharp. I suppose that is what most of us do after the course is over. I feel like I've lost a major part of myself.
I feel your pain, brother. In my youth, I was somewhat of a mathematics expert and I loved physics. There could have been a place for me in that world. However, I ended up dropping out of college to pursue fame and fortune along a different path. In the decades that followed, I've lost the mental agility to "see" elegant mathematical solutions as I once did. I miss that, but it's ok. Life is limited, and it's not possible to do and be everything. Choices must be made. The real tragedy is when we are too timid to make the choices.

Nowadays, I like to watch YouTube videos by Veritasium and Physics Girl. The books I read on the subject are complex enough to be interesting, but not so deep that the subjects are completely unfathomable.
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One thing you can do is use the "playlist" filter to search Youtube for full-course lectures (e.g., just search playlists for "linear algebra," "real analysis," etc.). This can be kind of hit-or-miss depending on the topic though. As far as I'm aware, the main resource available for self-studying math is just textbooks.

Here are some resources: If you're interested in a particular topic and textbooks work well for you, then you can also just search online for textbook recommendations in that area. You can also look up course pages from your favorite universities and follow the syllabi/schedules listed there. Usually they also list homework exercises if you don't want to do every exercise in the textbook.

I've found that self-studying this stuff tends to go a lot slower now that I'm no longer a full-time student, so it can help to reel back the ambition to avoid taking on too much and dropping it all :grin-sweat
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RustyIron wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:44 pm
Naperville wrote:
Wed Feb 16, 2022 8:14 pm

I cannot believe that I gave up studying all of the subjects that I took to stay sharp. I suppose that is what most of us do after the course is over. I feel like I've lost a major part of myself.
I feel your pain, brother. In my youth, I was somewhat of a mathematics expert and I loved physics. There could have been a place for me in that world. However, I ended up dropping out of college to pursue fame and fortune along a different path. In the decades that followed, I've lost the mental agility to "see" elegant mathematical solutions as I once did. I miss that, but it's ok. Life is limited, and it's not possible to do and be everything. Choices must be made. The real tragedy is when we are too timid to make the choices.

Nowadays, I like to watch YouTube videos by Veritasium and Physics Girl. The books I read on the subject are complex enough to be interesting, but not so deep that the subjects are completely unfathomable.
I want to dispel and thoughts that I was a mathematics expert right away. I bailed on the course Differential Equations, not because I could not handle it, but because my GPA was headed to 2.0! I took the hardest courses that I could, which is what I was there for, while my classmates took classes in basket-weaving.

I bailed in a semester when I had
- differential equations
- latin
- assembly language programming
- physics
- some garbage filler course

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Now the courses don't seem so bad, but at the time, physics was kicking my tail hard!!! I was passing, but I asked myself, "What the heck are we doing...." and "Do you see yourself doing this for 25 years?" At the time I guess I answered NO.

Universities have all of these rules around GPA and I had to retake a few courses. We were limited to 3 retakes!!! Of course you could retake a course infinitely many times but the original grade stuck and you were running up one heck of a bill.

"Life is limited, and it's not possible to do and be everything. Choices must be made."

I hear you loud and clear! I bailed on the EE ComputerE and went over to MIS and slept like a baby.

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Nonetheless, I feel like I fought a valiant fight and need to get back to it and drive on.
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Interesting and tangentially related website/video from a guy who self-taught off MIT's online curriculum:

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myproj ... allenge-2/
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Subscribe to them all from the most simple to the most advanced and start watching folks! It's exciting to be able to solve problems.


I agree with that webpage Tom!!!

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Yeah, Veritasiums videos are great.
Numberphile, physics girl, and plenty of others are worth watching as well.

I dont really care to watch problems just getting solved because it just makes me feel bad for forgetting almost everything I learned.

I also sort of realised that I wasnt going to go to graduate school about a year before I finished my bachelors and it kinda put me in a bad mentality of Cs get degrees. Which sucks, because now if I go back to school, which I plan on doing in the next couple years, I pretty much have to start over in another bachelors program. My B.S. is in pure and applied mathematics, but Ive forgotten so much.

I really like theoretical math and I really really like the philosophy and history of math. Ill pretty much watch or read anything that comes up dealing with that stuff.

In fact my quote at the bottom of my post is from a really good book on mathematics. Its called Zero: The biography of a dangerous idea.
"Rome's greatest contribution to mathematics was the killing of Archimedes."
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Fireman wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:49 pm


The Veritasium video on the logistic map equation is also about the Mandelbrot set and is really good.
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pkl wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:38 pm
One thing you can do is use the "playlist" filter to search Youtube for full-course lectures (e.g., just search playlists for "linear algebra," "real analysis," etc.). This can be kind of hit-or-miss depending on the topic though. As far as I'm aware, the main resource available for self-studying math is just textbooks.

Here are some resources: If you're interested in a particular topic and textbooks work well for you, then you can also just search online for textbook recommendations in that area. You can also look up course pages from your favorite universities and follow the syllabi/schedules listed there. Usually they also list homework exercises if you don't want to do every exercise in the textbook.

I've found that self-studying this stuff tends to go a lot slower now that I'm no longer a full-time student, so it can help to reel back the ambition to avoid taking on too much and dropping it all :grin-sweat
Fantastic links!

I can use these.

The reason why I go all the way back to the beginning and mix my studies up is that sometimes the lecturer has tricks that they use to solve problems, or the logic they use is extraordinary. I'll take all the insight I can get.
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https://odysee.com/@MinuteMath:b/5-minu ... for-fast:2

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VooDooChild wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 5:16 pm
Yeah, Veritasiums videos are great.
Numberphile, physics girl, and plenty of others are worth watching as well.

I dont really care to watch problems just getting solved because it just makes me feel bad for forgetting almost everything I learned.

I also sort of realised that I wasnt going to go to graduate school about a year before I finished my bachelors and it kinda put me in a bad mentality of Cs get degrees. Which sucks, because now if I go back to school, which I plan on doing in the next couple years, I pretty much have to start over in another bachelors program. My B.S. is in pure and applied mathematics, but Ive forgotten so much.

I really like theoretical math and I really really like the philosophy and history of math. Ill pretty much watch or read anything that comes up dealing with that stuff.

In fact my quote at the bottom of my post is from a really good book on mathematics. Its called Zero: The biography of a dangerous idea.
If I would have had your stamina for mathematics, I'd have a PhD in physics.

I put the book on ZERO on my to buy list.
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I don't watch math videos, but I do watch physics videos. I especially like this channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
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Doc Dan wrote:
Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:52 pm
I don't watch math videos, but I do watch physics videos. I especially like this channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder
Thank you Doc! I'll check it out.
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Thanks for post
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