Re:Ask HN: How do I re-learn maths as a middle-age person?
by st1x7 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:40PM
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Khan Academy
Two main reasons why it's better than other resources for your use case:
- it covers everything from pre-school arithmetic all the way up to multivariable calculus. This means that you can pick up from the level that you're comfortable at and build up from there
- Sal (who delivers most of the tutorials) teaches in a very approachable way and doesn't mind overexplaining basic things that university lectures tend to skim over
Once you're past Khan Academy, you can get some undergraduate/postgraduate lectures from MIT or just textbooks if you're interested in more rigorous treatment of mathematics or more advanced subfields.
Two main reasons why it's better than other resources for your use case:
- it covers everything from pre-school arithmetic all the way up to multivariable calculus. This means that you can pick up from the level that you're comfortable at and build up from there
- Sal (who delivers most of the tutorials) teaches in a very approachable way and doesn't mind overexplaining basic things that university lectures tend to skim over
Once you're past Khan Academy, you can get some undergraduate/postgraduate lectures from MIT or just textbooks if you're interested in more rigorous treatment of mathematics or more advanced subfields.