algebraicgeo

> It's worth noting I have some of the symptoms of dyscalculia, so perhaps my brain isn't really built to do math and is why I struggle so much?

Does discalculia have to do with numbers and calculations exclusively? It's not very hard to cook up math problems where the numbers are well-hidden so that you don't touch them directly. A lot of induction arguments are like that. Have you ever seen a math proof? The reason I am asking this is because your writing seems lucid enough and math proofs are nothing but tight explanations why a statement is true.

Take a look at this free book by Richard Hammack and see if you like the flavor of it because that's how much of math is: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

Also, huge articles (+ flame wars) on Python 2.x vs Python 3.x I never read those :)

I trawl HN like sites for links to info of fundamental importance in algorithms, math and whatever. What I am not looking for are the new languages, frameworks and such.

Are there such books for algorithms?

I apologize for my ignorance. How do people know of this stuff? Do the branches of military publish peer reviewed papers?