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by R0b0t1 1707 days ago
Wikipedia, honestly. For background math you may want to rely on the citations or other provided texts but a lot of articles have great examples sections.

But... I think you need a more coherent goal than just "understand the math." You can superficially understand the math when guided, but without any reason to retain it I am not sure what you will gain from the experience.
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kebman 1707 days ago
On my journey into this secret world I sadly had to conclude that understanding of the needed math was severely lacking, and that I'd have to start far back to ever get a grasp on it. But on the flipside it has motivated me to learn a bunch of things I never thought I would when I was younger, and also to program things that I never in my life thought I'd be able to.
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tdeck 1707 days ago
> You can superficially understand the math when guided, but without any reason to retain it I am not sure what you will gain from the experience.

This has been my experience with almost everything I ever learned about math, much of which I have unfortunately not retained.

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