I'll have you know that I have successfully passed Linear Algebra 1 and three Calculus courses
>>25269273I would be able to make actual contributions to a thread/general on STEM books but I think they are banned in this board
>>25269273OP did the same thing with "Heterosexuality For Dummies Pidgin Edition" and couldn't make it past the first letter.
>>25269273Hume BTFO math
>>25269394Kant restored math
>>25269394>>25269404no they didnt
Reading Pynchon makes me want to be good at math. But I’m too humanities-brained. Can analyze/interpret a poem, painting, movie, etc. all day but anything above basic algebra destroys me.
Not reading your gay larp psy op, fag.
>>25269273Start with the Greeks
>>25269273It gets pretty heavy at the end
Using Basic Mathematics as your precalculus book is like reading Don Quixote in the original Spanish.
>>25269826no it's like reading Portrait before Ulysses
>>25269420I'm the opposite lol
>>25269826No, it'a not. But it is obviously not intended for that, it is intended for college student who want to learn about doing proofs not just solving
Why would I read a book written for Indians?
I'm not a bugman so this doesn't bother me.
Is it pronounced "surge" or "ser-geh"?
>>25270035surge
>>25269983mogged by velleman's how to prove it tbdesu
>>25270047>implying
>>25269273Idgaf about math. Learned enough to utilize the calculator properly and I'm set with that.
>>25270054i concede
>>25269279This but also a course dubiously titled Numerical Methods that was really just a cover to make us solve ODEs
>>25269394Hume couldn’t BTFO Math or Economics.It’s why Hume and Marx aka Philosophers got BTFOED by Math and Economics.
>>25270203year n of trying to refute marx and yet
>>25270203>ED
Stop saying "maths" you sound like a fucking faggot.
>>25269826I did this as a kid because my dad fucked up by marrying a spic and it was the only thing to read in between beatings at one point
>>25270215It's in honor of all the retarded anorexic women who read marx and died of dehydration>>25270206 is well on her way
>>25269273I did 240/640~ pages of Concrete Mathematics, mostly while standing. After Hypergeometrics and going into Special Numbers I skedaddled.
>>25270264I forgot about that book, thank you for reminding me. I'm still slowly (very slowly) plodding through TAoCP.
Philosocucks will never learn that we STEMcels are always on top. Mathematics>Physics>Chemistry>Biology>Psychology>Sociology>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Philosophy.Philosophy is the lowest of all the "studies" and is just applied sociology.
>>25269560>>25270011>>25270023>Ph.D. in math>any job i want>300k starting
>>25270217Maths is just the UK term, retard.
>>25271047So what, you still sound like a faggot Τί μαθών;
>>25271033Go get that bag fellow STEM-chad.
>>25271033fuck u chatGPT u took my job ):<
>>25271354They took yer jerbs >:/
>>25271027youre getting actively replaced by robots, mathematics is destined to be nothing more than a hobby (just like philosophy)
I studied a mathematics minor at university but I wasn't smart enough for real mathematics and applied mathematics wasn't that interesting
>>25269279I was in the gifted class for mathematics. Phoned it in for a C
>>25269826Such a cutie!
>>25271167Maths is the proper term. It’s mathematics not mathematic
>>25271728A.I. will never replace me.
>>25271820Math is also the proper term but actually roles of the tongue better than maths
>>25271728It would be interesting if the end result of AI was the reuniting of philosophy and science. If AI were to eventually take over all or even most practical application/use of STEM leaving humans as the guiding hand, our relation to STEM would likely become philosophical.
>>25271872No along with driving on the wrong side of the road, using forks upside down, abandoning the Oxford comma, and ignorance of the human body being mostly water making it intuitively easier to judge ambient temperature by its effect on said liquid, all these things are why the empire was stillborn
It's easy. If you truly want to understand reality you study physics or mathematics.
>>25272028Physicists and mathematicians for the most part are always incredibly conservative about the degree they "understand" reality. Maybe they say different things in private.
>>25271867that's because you're a GOOD BOY
>people whove never studied any math past highschool algebra argue with people who think philosophy is a waste of time and also have never studied math past calc 3 and undergraduate ODEs at best on 4chan dot org's literature boardNice
modern mathematics is too specialized for anyone who isnt a mathematician to even bother
>>25269273This book sucks, it doesn't even have you contemplate what a number is and it's also base biased, euclids treatment of number is far superior
>>25269273>Not being a polymath
>>25272466impossible in the 21st century
>>25269273I have an engineering degree, so I feel confident I could read a book about basic mathematics.
Proposition 1 of book 7 and book 7 definitions of euclids elements absolutely mogs langs first pages of bullshit
if you were to learn maths from the ground up, is there a better starting platform than khanacademy?
>>25269273Sounds good but it says it's designed to provide a rigorous transition from high school mathematics to higher-level topics, and high school mathematics and all mathematics in K-12 sucks, so why not build a solid foundation first with something like:https://archive.org/details/elementsofarithm00demorichhttps://annas-archive.gl/md5/c523f037fce8a40b3a7bec1a4ec23671
>>25272503No.
>>25272038Yeah because they're the only ones slightly past the peak of "mount stupid" on the dunning kruger spectrum
>mfw trying to get a programming degree even though I'm an absolute midwit math has, for me, almost always been an exercise in frustration. the only thing i ever liked about it was being able to solve problems that made me look smarter than my peers once in a while.
>>25272569>>>/pol/534803733
>>25272594>implying I don't already realize this and appreciate the fact that I've been given a chance to improve my ability to think logicallyDoesn't make math any less painful, anon.
>>25272617Which books exactly have you read that are painful?
>>25269273If you want to brush up on basic math, I suggest reading The Cartoon Guide to Algebra/Geometry/Calculus by Larry Gonick. He makes it so simple and straight forward to understand that if you still don't after putting in the effort with his books, you should just get formally diagnosed with dyscalculia or some other learning disability.
Theres no reason to read philosophy. For any statement you make about reality will be questioned by a scientist, and any statement you make about society will be questioned by a sociologist.
>>25272807>without philosophy nothing can be accomplished- Karl Marx
