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#1 Recommend me a good Math book

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 4:56 pm
by rhoenix
Since I haven't studied math much over the past couple of years, and since I'm going to need to be fluent in it to do what it is I want to do, I need a good book (or books) to get caught up and help me catch up to where I last left off in school (roughly algebra2/trig), so I can just pick up where I last left off and hit the ground running.

Mind you, I'm not expecting to get caught up to the point of doing electromagnetic equations over the summer, but that is my eventual goal, as I'll need to be very fluent in math to become a proper physicist, let alone an astrophysicist. I would like to have a good math book that will make my re-introduction to math easier, and ideally something I can use as a good reference for the next few years that I'm in school.

I'll be looking up candidates on Amazon, but I'm asking here as well.

#2 Re: Recommend me a good Math book

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 6:15 pm
by Josh
Unfortunately I can't find my old trig text or I'd just ship it to you.

On the plus side I did find an anatomy book I'd lost a while back.

Yeah I'm a disorganized shit.

As for studying up, have you looked at Coursera or the Khan Academy? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/trigonometry

#3 Re: Recommend me a good Math book

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 6:23 pm
by rhoenix
Nice, the Khan Academy link looks good to me - thanks Josh. I've also found a couple good candidates on Amazon, and I'll work on narrowing them down to a small list. I'll post them here after doing so, just in case anyone else is curious.

#4 Re: Recommend me a good Math book

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 7:17 pm
by rhoenix