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To all the SUCCESSFUL math autodidacts: how the fuck does one learn math properly FROM START TO FINISH? The fucking /wiki/ is the biggest joke of all time which wasted a whole entire year of my life.
The first book, whose name I forgot, already dives into d=rt problems and using formulas without even explaining anything, like hello??? Isn't this supposed to be preschool? In other words for one who can barely add numbers? The other books in that section were just mental math tricks which prove zero benefit for someone just starting out and just contradict everything you will find in an actual good textbook.
Now for grade school, finally going to learn something useful (expecting to have gone from nothing to precalc by end). Algebra by gelfand for the first book ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. Like 90 pages long and it doesn't even have solutions. It's almost like someone went onto amazon and just kept pasting random titles to make up the wiki list.
I saw enough people here shilling basic mathematics by lang (AS A BEGINNER BOOK) so I thought, why not give it a try even though the author already states at the start that this is a review book for people who already know up to calc, but lets trust the smartasses of /sci/. Lang is a pile of shit meme author who is praised by wannabe high school math philosophers and I would always post questions from his book onto here nobody could solve them properly. Was always hilarious to reveal they came from and see everyone calling him out, obvious meme is obvious. And I just saw a "favorite books" thread over here right now and several of them had a few lang books, like how many of you have actually finished a lang read besides basic math/maybe his geometry book (which is so fucking horrible)?
The first book, whose name I forgot, already dives into d=rt problems and using formulas without even explaining anything, like hello??? Isn't this supposed to be preschool? In other words for one who can barely add numbers? The other books in that section were just mental math tricks which prove zero benefit for someone just starting out and just contradict everything you will find in an actual good textbook.
Now for grade school, finally going to learn something useful (expecting to have gone from nothing to precalc by end). Algebra by gelfand for the first book ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. Like 90 pages long and it doesn't even have solutions. It's almost like someone went onto amazon and just kept pasting random titles to make up the wiki list.
I saw enough people here shilling basic mathematics by lang (AS A BEGINNER BOOK) so I thought, why not give it a try even though the author already states at the start that this is a review book for people who already know up to calc, but lets trust the smartasses of /sci/. Lang is a pile of shit meme author who is praised by wannabe high school math philosophers and I would always post questions from his book onto here nobody could solve them properly. Was always hilarious to reveal they came from and see everyone calling him out, obvious meme is obvious. And I just saw a "favorite books" thread over here right now and several of them had a few lang books, like how many of you have actually finished a lang read besides basic math/maybe his geometry book (which is so fucking horrible)?
