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by whatisthis9 793 days ago
man this is awesome. Thank you! I took my last calculus course in undergrad over 10 years ago and honestly forgot a lot of math including calculus. I am currently back in school doing my masters and struggling at the moment after forgetting this and a lot of other undergrad math topics.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of similar sites for linear algebra, discrete mathematics, statistics, etc?
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contact9879 793 days ago
Gilbert Strang's "Intro to Linear Algebra"[1] is widely recommended and I enjoyed it as a supplement to Friedberg, Insel, and Spence's much more formal "Linear Algebra"[2].

[1] https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ila6/indexila6.html

[2] https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/linear-algeb...

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nerdponx 792 days ago
I learned right from FIS without any "warmup" from Strang-level material and it was rough to say the least. I came away with a good final grade and a very poor understanding of most of what I was doing, I was just grinding through proofs with little practical intuition. Good reference book, but very difficult to learn from, especially with a professor who seemed to love abstract math and didn't place high value on geometric intuition.
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threatofrain 792 days ago
In general, proof-oriented undergrad classes for Linear Algebra would be either the second class they take, or it's a math major going a pathway specifically for math people. Similar to Sheldon Axler's famous book.
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j_bum 792 days ago
+1 for Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra textbookcourse. Im working through his textbook now as I’m diving deeper into ML/DL methods.

Here is an additional link to the Spring 2023 course materials that follow along the 6th ed. Of his textbook [0].

[0] https://github.com/mitmath/1806

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