Re: Self-education for a late-onset math geek

On Apr 28, 1:07 pm, DanEsch <daniel.a.e...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Many (many many many) years ago I was a cocky college freshman who placed into the honors track for math, and -- ego before common sense -- took the honors multivariable calc course.

Big mistake - standard assumption for the course was basic mastery of the A/P calculus curriculum (AB, but who cares now). Since my school then didn't offer A/P courses, the calc I got was the calc they taught. There were some big gaps. Being a complete idiot (college freshman, remember) I didn't do anything sensible like, oh I dunno, transfer to a lower section or retake the honors section of basic calc or anything like that. I gutted the course out, got a crap grade and didn't bother much with math in college after that.

Some years after graduation, I realized what a moronic decision that was. So, now, with limited funds and access to university course, I want to study math, for real.

Can anyone recommend path or paths for "where do I go from here" as self-directed curriculum for someone with basic knowledge of single-variable calculus, and strong motivation? (For what it's worth, my profession requires working with numeric data all the time, but the level of mathematics involved basically elementary algebra).

If this is the wrong forum, please let me know and I'll repost in the right one.

Thanks for any replies

The next topics one takes in college curricula
would be:

multi-variable calculus
linear algebra/vector spaces
ordinary differential equations

There's a bit of overlap in these topics, but
not so much that one could not start independent
study on whichever one was of greatest interest.

regards, chip
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