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by ArkyBeagle 4208 days ago
There is some distance from this to antenna design, electromagnetism, etc, but I think you have to be fluent in proofs to actually follow along on those. Math is a big subject; ymmv.

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Douglas Smith (Author), Maurice Eggen (Author), Richard St. Andre (Author)

ISBN-13: 978-0495562023 ISBN-10: 0495562025 Edition: 7th

It shows up on Abebooks which could help with the price. It's a small book, exceedingly well-crafted and worth every nickel.

2 comments

@ArkyBeagle Thank you for the book recommended!

@smtucker I'm also a math noob, and I'm a half way through Udacity's "College Algebra" (free) course:

https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ma008

There is also a good introductory class on Statistics:

https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-st101

After these classes, hopefully, reading "Transition to Advanced Mathematics" will not be a pain.

>There is some distance from this to antenna design, electromagnetism, etc, but I think you have to be fluent in proofs to actually follow along on those. Math is a big subject; ymmv.

I'm only 20 years old and hopefully I have a long life ahead of me so I'm not too worried about how long it takes, I just want to get on the right track.

Thank you on the book recommendation, that looks like it is exactly the type of resource I was looking for!