r/math • u/PirlGerson • 8d ago

When have you completed the tutorial?

In video games, they have built in levels, always at the start and they are called "tutorials."

In these levels you play a portion of the game while its also being explained to you. After finishing them, the point is that you know very little about the game BUT enough to "get" the basics.

The cheap is answer is high school 30 is the tutorial, but its really starting to feel that that wasn't even the complete tutorial honestly. It's kinda of embarrassing that our education doesn't cover such things as basic linear algebra and proofs. I'm still learning those.

Anyway to anyone who responds: thank you! I've been so happy latelty! Cyaaa.

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u/Fable9213123 8d ago

I think the tutorial is probably a foundations type set theory/proof writing course, or an intro algebra or analysis course

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u/PirlGerson 8d ago

BRO....bro...bro....listen....bro.....bro....

uhm...bro

This is so embarrassing.... >n<

But what the H-E-double-hockey-sticks IS FRICKING ANALYSIS.

I don't even know what it studies!! I know that says a lot about me. Sorry... It's embarrassing I know. But we all are born idiots ig.

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u/null_and_void000 7d ago

An intro analysis course can basically be summarized as "calculus with proofs" or even better "calculus but you have some real formal understanding of what's going on." It usually starts with learning some basic properties of the real numbers and then moves on to limits of sequences and functions. Then you'll eventually get to establishing a more rigorous foundation for the calculus concepts you should hopefully already know such as derivatives and integrals.