Get textbooks if there aren't any. I use Essential Calculus (but you're already past that so nevermind).
Get textbooks if there aren't any. I use Essential Calculus (but you're already past that so nevermind).
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
MIT has an open courseware site that offers a lot of free materials including class notes and assignments, though they don't provide textbooks.Originally Posted by enkoujin
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Also, look up "math complete" on a torrent site...
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
About that, a friend of mine recommended a website with a lot of free material including math. I told him I was planning going back to school and he said that if I wanted to brush up on math that I'd visit this site: http://www.khanacademy.org/
It's a step-wise educational program and I think you can start anywhere you like.
I was told the inventor of the organization had ideals that education should be free and started out with some youtube vids.
Thought it might be useful.
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Now... we can click as warriors... button to button, it is the basis of all internet.
Only a fool trusts his life to a virus.
Oh yes, I saw the site creator on The Daily Show. I haven't checked out the site but from what we saw on the daily show, it seemed incredible. I'll check that out now.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
He has hella videos on Youtube. I use them for Orgo, etc.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
I haven't taken a math class in a while, unless computer logic counts, where we used formulae and proofs just like in math class.
I'm not sure free learning is a good idea. It interferes with the established power structure where only the social and economic elites can succeed without a lot of effort. Also, free learning is dangerous because terrorists can finally learn what to do with the glowing rocks they acquired but have no idea how to use to kill people en masse.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
You're trying too hard.
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Free learning is awesome. It's also an exercise of motivation and will power.
"Leaving hell is not the same as entering it." - Tierce Japhrimel
Websites... not really. You can sometimes find big packs of mathematics text books on the torrent sites.
Here is a list of books online. Oh, and the AMS had a series of free books in PDF format.
http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/...linebooks.html
Wikipedia is surprisingly good (especially in breadth), but its depth is limited.
I suggest getting Dover editions of math text books. Dover republishes older books and sells them at good prices. Also, Alibris.com is a good resource for used text books. I have bought books in good condition for as little as 99c. I can write up a list of good books if you want.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
I found another good source for free textbooks. There is a lot of stuff there.
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=3
"After all, I am strangely colored."
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