[HiroshiSan]

I appreciate you calling me out. I'm certainly not a beginner in the sense that I know elementary algebra very well and that I know the names of upper level courses.

That being said I'm very much a beginner. I've only come across proofs in the one course I took (where I listed the textbook above). I dropped out of Introductory Analysis due to the fact that my foundation was very very weak. I don't know know much of Calculus and so I had a lot of difficulty building intuition behind a lot of concepts and theorems.

I've been taking high school courses for the past 6 months or so in order to build my foundation because I see a lot of value in a Math degree and would like to complete it.

My intent in asking the question was just to get an idea of what people with a possibly similar background to mine did to really teach themselves upper level math, because I'm struggling at it, very very much.

[oggyhead]

Going to get into introductory analysis soon too myself! The one tip that I have been given is to build intuition by taking/relearning the computational part of calculus before diving into the rigorous part of things. Hopefully someone else can weight in on the value of the tip