I’m working through a group theory / analysis syllabus to remedy my gormlessness with proofs. If anyone else is gormless with proofs, we could form a Remedial Proofs Club, where we all fruitlessly push variables round a page for three quarters of an hour before giving up. It’d be like a secret handshake.
I’ve also been sitting on the Daniel Solow and Polya books with minimal motivation to work through them. Remedial Proofs Book Club, maybe?
I was about to begin trying to work through Elias Zakon’s Basic Concepts of Mathematics, available free online at here. My motivations are similar to yours, and the idea of a Remedial Proofs Book Club is attractive to me. I chose this particular text only because it was free online and seemed to be written specifically for people at my level (got a 5 on the Calculus AB AP exam after high school, thought I was hot shit, took a rigorous Calculus course my first of year of college, couldn’t do a single problem, cried real tears, traumatized). If you had a strong preference for different source material, I would switch to it if we could work through it together.
I’m down. I need to learn a lot of math, from probability theory, topology, algebra, set theory, whatever it takes to understand univalent foundations. So i’m in it for the long haul. I want to get to the point where I can pass a “prelim”.
So, buy both books and proceed from there?
edit: I see you are studying analysis. I bought an elementary analysis text recently and really want to get deeper.
I’m working through a group theory / analysis syllabus to remedy my gormlessness with proofs. If anyone else is gormless with proofs, we could form a Remedial Proofs Club, where we all fruitlessly push variables round a page for three quarters of an hour before giving up. It’d be like a secret handshake.
I’ve also been sitting on the Daniel Solow and Polya books with minimal motivation to work through them. Remedial Proofs Book Club, maybe?
I was about to begin trying to work through Elias Zakon’s Basic Concepts of Mathematics, available free online at here. My motivations are similar to yours, and the idea of a Remedial Proofs Book Club is attractive to me. I chose this particular text only because it was free online and seemed to be written specifically for people at my level (got a 5 on the Calculus AB AP exam after high school, thought I was hot shit, took a rigorous Calculus course my first of year of college, couldn’t do a single problem, cried real tears, traumatized). If you had a strong preference for different source material, I would switch to it if we could work through it together.
I’m down. I need to learn a lot of math, from probability theory, topology, algebra, set theory, whatever it takes to understand univalent foundations. So i’m in it for the long haul. I want to get to the point where I can pass a “prelim”.
So, buy both books and proceed from there?
edit: I see you are studying analysis. I bought an elementary analysis text recently and really want to get deeper.