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by siegel 3319 days ago
Same boat. I was just going through boxes in my garage and came upon my old college math textbooks and some old exams/homework assignments. It was like gibberish.

My plan was just to take a textbook and see if I can just relearn. Probably are better options out there, but I'm clueless.

Probably will start with either linear algebra or maybe set theory?

Happy to hear other ideas of how people would do this. For me, there's no practical application. I just used to love this stuff and hate how much I've forgotten.

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> Probably will start with either linear algebra or maybe set theory?

This can work. I spent a year or so before grad school at work, I brushed up by spending a summer drilling through a Linear Algebra book.

A new thing I have been trying out recently is find an application, find something I am confused by, dig deeper through the layers of mathematics till I uncover the basics of the confusion, then re-learn and work up.

So BFS vs DFS. The latter seems more like up my alley. YMMV