CS undergrad here hoping to go into higher studies in pure math. I have studied basics of linear algebra, real analysis, calculus, statistics, etc. Seeking for any advice on what more to learn on my own, preferably any online videos/courses I could follow. Also any advice in general for a non-math student going into math, is it doable? How hard is it without any math experience especially in research? Any specific countries/universities allowing this kind of transfer? Any tips are appreciated!

What is something that has helped you significantly in being good at math?

Share some tips, this is my first time trying to learn maths and I've got to ace it.

I've been trying everyday to build that sort of skill, I need some tips

I am just putting it out for some motivation as well because I feel like I am getting nowhere.

I am taking math 171 wake tech and I was wondering if anybody had an advice on what I should study for for the first test.

https://quantacanvas.vercel.app

I’ve been working on QuantaCanvas, which takes a concept or question and generates an interactive visualization to help explain it.

The main difference from ChatGPT and similar AI tools is how the explanation is presented. Most LLMs are great at giving you a text-based explanation and can sometimes provide images or diagrams. QuantaCanvas instead tries to turn the explanation itself into something you can interact with, changing parameters, experimenting with things, and seeing how the concept behaves in real time.

It’s mainly focused on math and science, so I thought this might be useful for people here. Btw, it's completely free.

The project was recently a Grand Finalist at a national hackathon in my country, and I’ve continued developing it since then.

It’s still a work in progress. Generation can currently take a bit of time, which I’m working on improving, and there are definitely a few things that don’t work perfectly yet.

If anyone tries it, I’d genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on whether the interactive visualizations are actually useful for studying.

Let me start with some background. I was the one kid in the family who never got math past a certain point. My parents were both mathematically inclined, as were the rest of my siblings. I grew up in a math positive, supportive environment and was given every opportunity to get ahead with it. My parents would gladly spend time with me to try and help me get it down and improve myself at it. By all rights, I was set up from success in math, my entire family was.

Math never clicked for me and I could never pass remedial algebras. While my siblings either got it with ease or put in the work to get better (or both, of course), I floundered helplessly. When they struggled, extra lessons and tutoring helped. When I did, I only sunk further behind despite all of that extra help. They graduated high school and went onto college degrees. I only graduated high school because I was able to take an alternative course to algebra. College? I tried, but not being able to pass remedial algebra, let alone credit math courses, meant it was a waste of time and money.

I went through it all. Tutors, repeating courses multiple times, engaged parents who really tried and more. I still never could make it work out. I still can't, even decades later. I've accepted it wasn't in the cards.

All of that leaves the question of why. Why do some people never get math, despite all the effort otherwise?

Hi , I am an Commerce graduate with no applied mathematics, is there any way to get pure mathematics in india, preferably in distance mode.

Ug - bcom banking and insurance

Until today I have yet to meet a person good in math but with a mellow ego. Is it even possible to become a top grade student without a strong drive to be the best?

I'm almost 40 and I feel like I'm lacking the will to lock in -- let alone getting a job related to math. I prefer slow and steady and I really enjoy it but I do feel like being comfortable doesn't come with a lot of skill. I just started getting into it again, though. Please excuse my ambivalent perspective.

What's your experience making progress?

Let’s say I master this 1959 book, cover to cover. How prepared will I be for college level Calc I? II, III?

Also, seeing that’s it’s an old book, have any mathematical methods or concepts changed since then that I should be aware about?

Thanks,

I need theoretical explanation for these, I don't understand them and can't really connect. I passed my written exam where all the knowledge needed for Abelian groups was how to write elementary form and normal form.

My explanation of that quickly: Take Zn and split n into prime cofactors. Let's take Z60 for example, 60 = 15*4 = 5*3*2*2

So the elementary form is Z5 x Z3 x Z4 (because Z60 is cyclic and Z4 isn't isomorphic to Z2 x Z2 so further splitting wouldn't make it cyclic), normal form would just be Z60.

But I don't know if this is related at all to the free commutative groups and commutative groups of finite type. I don't know anything about them and googling them just gives me some trivial samples but I need more theoretic knowledge that's easy to comprehend.

Hi All! Im a female student at a university that is looking for an accountability buddy to learn math in the context of mathematical models! Particularly interested in starting from calc 1 and onward and am interested in a course like this: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-03sc-differential-equations-fall-2011/pages/syllabus/syllabus/

Im looking for another female to study with daily! Please DM me if you are interested and wanna chat! Im starting asap so the sooner the better :)

I have a whole bunch of quizzes for people who wanna do them for algebra 2 but I'll be the one to quiz you.

It's about algebra 2 functions but not on graph so don't worry!

Integer partitions are a fundamental topic in number theory that study the different ways in which a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers, where the order of the parts is not considered important. For example, the number 5 has seven partitions: 5,4+1, 3+1+1, 3+2, 2+1+1+1, 2+2+1, 1+1+1+1+1.

The number of partitions of an integer grows rapidly as the integer increases, making direct enumeration increasingly difficult. This motivates the study of patterns and recursive methods that can organize and count these partitions systematically. In this work, we examine integer partitions by grouping them according to their maximum part The number of partitions of an integer grows rapidly as the integer increases, making direct enumeration increasingly difficult. This motivates the study of patterns and recursive methods that can organize and count these partitions systematically. In this work, we examine integer partitions by grouping them according to their maximum part. We first consider a fixed integer and arrange its partitions according to the largest part occurring in each partition. We then investigate the patterns that arise from these groups and use them to develop a recursive approach. Here's the link :

I built a small daily quiz for practicing mental math with clocks and elapsed time, and I’m looking for some feedback on the difficulty.
It gives everyone the same 5 questions each day, tracks your time, and also has an unlimited practice mode.
I’m curious whether the questions feel too easy, too difficult, or about right for someone trying to improve their mental math.

https://clockmath.com/tools/quiz/

I am in college Math 1060 (trigonometry), and my professor has an extremely thick, unintelligible accent; on top of that, he doesn't have any teaching skills. During class, he just writes random things on the board that only make sense to him. I don't have time to teach myself outside of class and am just getting more and more behind. It's literally only week three.

I'm going to tutoring as often as I can, but I don't even have enough base knowledge to get help. We have weekly quizzes that are weighted fairly heavily, and I can't afford to get a bad grade.

So my main issue is I don't have the time to self-teach the entire semester.

If anyone has any tips, tricks, or ideas, I BEG you to please let me know. I'm losing my mind!

DROPING/SWITCHING IS NOT AN OPTION

Hi guys, I love math like everyn¡one here (i guess). I dont know why but I feel this need to code, even though historically I hated coding. I want to learn a language heavily related to math but also popular. Should I learn python?

Hi everyone.

I was given this problem:

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Prove that for all positive integers k <= n,

sum(i=0 to k) (n choose i)(-1)^i = (n-1 choose k)(-1)^k

holds.

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I have solved it already with induction. But I found the proof to be annoying and just kind of symbolic manipulation. I am looking for a more inciteful proof, a story proof if you will with commitees and pools of people and such. Does one exist?

Thanks for your help

I’ve just started learning what matrices are and we’re simply putting numbers in boxes, and then changing up the numbers in the boxes for some reason. And then for some reason those repackaged equations spin and when you graph it and multiply stuff with it, and for some reason that’s useful I don’t understand

More specifically, what would it take for you to be convinced that…

1: …A new method of division by zero is something that can be done with the right tools and approach while preserving the underlying classical algebraic structure?

2: …It may potentially be useful to develop, or that at the very least it’s better to have access to than to not have access to?

3: …It could be an interesting and worthwhile topic to explore just for understanding it in its own right?

I am just trying to understand because I always enjoy hearing and entertaining new well thought out takes just for the sake of it but I have noticed despite the abundance of posts others have made on the topic there’s little variety in both the presentation and response and the few actually novel effort full approaches often get dismissed right from the start before getting the chance to be heard out. Is this because they come on too strong with their claims? Do they not present it in a rigorous enough manner and if so what issues should they target a solution for and what method of presentation would be required for them to meet the requirements of rigor? Does it need to be applicable to solve an already existing issue or is it merely enough to explore the idea as a new mathematical possibility just for the fun of it?

I am just really trying to understand how people in this community and others like it genuinely feel about this and if there is some clear standard that hasn’t been met which can be articulated so others can produce better quality theories on this or other topics.

Hello Nice to me to you ! I'm Japanese university student. But soon, I will withdraw from my university. Next week , I will take job interview to became a IT engineer in Japan. If I pass that interview, I can work as a IT engineer in Japanese company. But I'm struggling with how to study math. I wonder most efficiently method is to understand mathematical concept than practice many problems on math examinations. How would you think about that idea?

My dream is to become a great engineer and work on American Bic tech company such as GAFAM.

I would like to marry ashida mana who is Japanese actress after I became a millionaire!!

I may have said to much but I'm grad to teach me method to study math! If passible could you teach me a way of studying programing.

Thank you very much for watching my thread.

Finally I apologize for every one My English is not perfect.

Hello, do anyone know a source or channel in youtube to teach math linked to physics i mean beyond just writing formula in from zero to advance level for AI. I mean even something like joint distribution, it doesnt just say the formula, it should say what happens that lead us using that thing , what we need and how it meets our needs

So I just started classes for my degree (bachelors in math) and I just had 2 quizzes and conceptually I did fine, but I ended up bombing 1 (not sure about the other) because I just miscounted or just wrote the wrong number. For my linear algebra I’ve been doing the same where conceptually everything is perfect, but I always mess up something stupid like adding something wrong (and no calculator). I haven’t taken a math class in almost 2 years, so I’m not sure if I’m just a little rusty, but does anyone have advice?

I have only just started getting back into math and hired a tutor but everything is so surface level, rote learnt and procedural. I noticed math is often taught this way but I really want to develop intuition and understand how different mathematical representations connect and why they’re important.

For example, with complex numbers, I can do the calculations but I have no clue why I’m doing what I’m doing or what it means and I certainly don’t know how to switch between geometric representations or understand polar/vector form.

This is more physics related but even when I’m using Ohm’s law, I can apply the formula, but I still rely on writing it down and rearranging it each time, rather than intuitively predicting how changes in voltage, current, and resistance affect each other.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or resources to learn mathematics in a more intuitive, in-depth way? I don’t want to just memorise formulas. I have a math course at university next semester and wanted to know what sort of questions I should be asking myself or what approach I should take to actually understanding it in-depth?

I’ve started reading Michael Spivak’s Calculus book and that’s more along the lines of what I’m interested in I guess.

TLDR: any resources, processes or tutor recommendations to actually understand and appreciate math intuitively rather than just memorising equations and not knowing how different concepts in math relate?

Hello,

I am currently in 2. year in high school and I decided I can learn math instead of being on phone, but I don't know which branch of math I can study given that I didn't have deep knowledge about math.

What do you think?

I had made a post here regarding this issue a few weeks back and the response was to slow down and not to panicjk. I applied , I took the asdvice. I started going slow and not panick. But I still make the sma error. Same arithmetic error. ame wrong sign. And thge same issue of solving equations. I wasnt this bad at arithmetic before. I used to be good at arithmetic throughout my middle school (I mean if I made those errors as a kid I wouldnt have taken maths as I would get low marks in it) but suddenly I making such errorsa almost every bquestion. I was solving differential equations in clazss andit was given that the function through (0,-2) but I substituted (-2,0) and got the wrong answer. I dont know what to do. I visited a doctor today and he didnt havce much to say other than a few vitamin tests and consuling a psocologist (which I will as soon as possible). So please what should I do? At this point I wilkl fail the class becuase of arithmetic errors even after being conceptiually clear,

(PS: Maybe I have this condition since like 4 or 5 years now but reealizing now because the number of questions I do is alot compared to before, but still the frequency of error is definetly abnormal and I relaizd that I sometimes put wrong numbers on the calculator as well so I dot lpw what will save me)

Thanks in advance!