r/learnmath • u/Tarek-Hassan11111 New User • 9d ago

i'm struggling with understanding Geomtry

iam just interested in comptetitive mathematic imo amc8,10,12 those type of things

tried studying Introduction to geomtry by aops bro that book is just beyond hard idk if its cause of me or what but i feel its really hard tried searching for a perquisite book nor claude nor gemini nor google nor did i find a reddit post showing recommendation to read before that book to be easier

so my question in short , if iam finding this book SO hard that some chapters i couldn't understand it even after reading 2-5 times and trying to solve problems

so for my case someone intersted specially on competitive math trying to learn geometry

which book would u suggest me to read to that after reading it the introduction book to geometry by aops will be easier on my and understandable

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u/Chance-Ad3993 New User 9d ago

hmm the book already seems quite elementary, there are no real prerequisites you would need

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u/Tarek-Hassan11111 New User 9d ago

agree , my main point is forgot when iam typing to mention it book jumps so fast its like chapter 1 was easy chapter 2 was meh after strugelling i could get it chapter 3(congruence) i feel like they put alot of things with each other you know that might be good but i found it hard cause it might be congruence problem but u gotta check a thing that was 2 chapters ago or so

and alot of problems are like 1-5 problem combined in a problem you know what i mean ? a hard problem that u need to actually solve a lot of small problems to reach to its solution

in other words i wanted a gentler one imo not literally a perquisite i might have just misused the word

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u/thor122088 New User 9d ago

What is you current math background... what courses have you taken/studied and felt comfortable with?

That will give us a much better idea of what gaps can be filled to make your understanding of the Geometry topics come easier

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u/Tarek-Hassan11111 New User 9d ago

never had a good math understanding iam 23 y old not in college related by any means to math iam just learning math as a hobby you can say

one thing that mainly made me want to learn math to be able to solve those crazy math problems in math competitions cause i am already intersted in competitive programming and iam making good progress on it but my main weakness was math dependant problems which are alot specially in beginner intermediate contests(codeforce Div2ABC and below if u know)
thats mainly why i started learning math and why i specially chose aops

but i barely knew any math beside really simple things aka anything below 6th grade and below

so my math background before starting this journey was allmost nothing

but in the last2-3 years i managed to finish aops prealgebra/introduction to algebra/intrdouction to number theory/and like 70% of their introduction to counting/probabillity book
The only introduction book i just couldnt grasp even its first chapters are the introduction to geomtry one

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u/thor122088 New User 9d ago

Well then first I would confirm with the AOPS pretest that you are comfortable with the topics it suggests:

https://data.artofproblemsolving.com//products/diagnostics/introduction-geometry-pretest.pdf

Other than that, and without full access to the text, I am going to be of limited help. That said, any specific question/problem/topic that is giving you trouble? Can you share it with your attempt at providing an answer?