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by hnmm23 1608 days ago
Any good resources that help instill the "why"?
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I'm working on a reference guide here for exactly that: https://github.com/EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt/blob/master/...

It's basically "Here's some cool stuff math can do, and interesting historical anecdotes, and how to make a computer do it without actually understanding any of it, and here's what you could do if you actually understood it"

There may be errors because... I don't actually understand it and can't derive it myself, so I'm relying entirely on sources.

But I think there's value in a text on math by someone with no talent for it, since most books even for beginners assume people have a certain level of ability and treat things i would call very hard as obvious.

I don't have any excercises or material on how to actually DO the math, just how to use a CAS solver, I leave the actual teaching of math to those who understand it and focus on showing how it's relevant at all to those of us who don't want to go back and study for two years.

This website has helped me out a lot with understanding the ideas that math represents: https://betterexplained.com/
I'd suggest the youtube channel 3Blue1Brown - the teacher that runs the channel likes to pull problems into physical space and applications often.