Hey, Im Second Semester Math Undergrad, Do You Recomend Any Book For Calculus?

The beautiful modernism of Oliver Byrne’s, The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, 1847

oh i just saw, congrats on the bachelors!! im still in calc 3, i thought itd be less mundane but it is actually killing now to the point where i cant even open our stewart text. all my friends in decent math programs are doing more fun and general versions this course. i just cant wait to not use this awful book anymore (all our work is based on the books problems and methodology). all this is to say your progress is inspiring. hopefully i get to a point where i can also be having fun around structures and such, i just have to finish grinding through the filter of "do a bunch of this and don't worry about what it really means, btw good luck problem solving on your exams with 0 neither provided intuition nor rigor". i hope blogs like this stick around!

thank you for the nice message!

I'm so sorry to hear that this is how they teach you math, something like this takes away all pleasure and satisfaction. I didn't have calc 3 as such at my university, we would generally focus on theory and understanding from the start. however, we did have some courses where the mindset was like you just described and it was torture. I hope it changes for you soon so that you can finally enjoy some beautiful math!

4-5 VIII 2021

did much topo and walked

sleep: weird. 5 hours. woke up at 3:30, at least right now it seems i might finally fix my circadian rythm

concentration: not good. too little sleep

phone time: good

almost done with operations on topo spaces and did some measure theory today. i love it so much, it's so new and yet so intuitive

tomorrow gonna take a peek at some art probably and possibly finish the operations on topo spaces, hoping to jump right into connected spaces and maybe do some more measure theory. kinda gave up with multivar calc boring af lol

I have a bunch of followers and mutuals that I never even talked to and I know some of you guys are very into math too, so let's get to know each other, shall we?

if you feel like you'd enjoy talking to me then go ahead, write me a message! I just realized I never said something like this and I would really love to have conversations with like-minded people

if this feels familiar, you can reblog this post to invite people to talk to you

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21 VII 2023

oh god I haven't posted anything personal in a very long time

I've been super busy with exams, essays and then my thesis, all I did was sleeping and studying

I defended my thesis 40 minutes ago! it's done! in two months I am starting the master's degree program

this was probably the most brutal exam session I ever had lol it started a month ago and I had no day off since. after finishing my normal exams I've been working 12 hours per day to complete my thesis and thanks to my advisor who was working just as hard as me, we did it

I was so close to failing differential geometry. the exam was really bad, probably my worst ever. the questions were mostly about this one topic covered during the last class – we discussed maybe 3 problems and the professor decided that this is good enough lol basically we were supposed to read his mind and guess what else there is to learn. I scored 35% and apparently that's more than enough to pass – the grades go from 3 to 5 and I got 3.5, so that's literally "more than enough to pass". there were only 3 people who scored 50% or more, so yeah, that seems fair

that week of studying differential geometry was the most stressful week in the last 3 years, I fucking hate it when it's unclear what I'm supposed to learn and I have no idea how to do it. thank god I passed, I don't know how I would do it again before taking the september exam

anyway, I passed algebraic topology, number theory and algebra 2 with flying colors and the reviewers really loved my thesis! they strongly suggest publishing it, but I think I will try to finish the second part of the proof before I do that

I already found the advisor for my master's thesis, of course I don't know what it's gonna be about, but since I had some algebraic topology this year, I am thinking it's time to learn algebraic geometry now

sweet jesus it's finally over, I can't believe it. and something new is starting

13-16 VIII 2021

much work recently gotta code

gonna monitor only my focus now, define the scale such that 1 means "can't concentrate at all" and 5 means "hyperfocus". today was

focus: 2

i am not doing as much math as i'd like to as i have to focus on the python project i'm doing with bf. anyway, we can say that i did cartesian products of topo spaces, i do have some basic understanding of the concepts now. i started compact spaces. i also need to read some stuff on connectedness and put extra time into analyzing examples of what i've been learning about. so that's the next thing on my schedule, after i'm done with compact and connected spaces

but hey i have 1.5 month of the holidays left and i learned most of the theory planned for me on analysis and half of what i'm supposed to learn on topo. doing good

other than that i decided to write down the structure of how i study:

i find it to be a good way for studying math, it goes brrr like this:

general idea → details, connections and applications

i gained some followers already, i hope you guys enjoy this and possibly find it helpful. moreover, i'm very interested in your custom study algorithms if you have any

→ 3 IX 2021

such a weird day today. i finished complete spaces and then moved on to preparing for the math conference i'm going to on sunday. there is a lot of high level stuff so i won't be able to learn everything, of course, but i'm doing my fav thing ever and enjoying it thoroughly. that is, switching from a topic to a topic in the spare of 15 minutes and reading a bit about anything until it stops being ✨super exciting✨

this amounts to a total of 8 hours of math and i am not done yet. love it, absolutely love to waste time like that

concentration: fucking ∞

tomorrow i'm doing an algebra speedrun with bf and two of our friends. this is an experiment aiming at seeing how much information we are able to pack into our heads in one sitting. we haven't studied abstract algebra before. then in a few as i mentioned i am going to a math conference, with bf and our other friend. excited about that too. i fucking love math

chaotic good

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