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Math book recommendation for a former math student who wants to get back into math for fun?
I am just going to try give some specifics about myself, so that people can make some specific recommendations.
So, I have a Bachelor in CS and sort of in parallel I studied Bachelor Math for 5 out of 6 semesters. I had pretty good grades, so I am pretty confident that I would have gotten the degree. Just for various reasons I burned out and had to stop.
I did engage with math after that for a while, in my job which had to do with Digital Signal Processing and AI. But I no longer have that job, so my mathematical activity has strongly declined. Sometimes I do get that itch and read some university material on a random subject and might even be inspired to do some math on paper again. Matrix Analysis was one subject I really enjoyed. But I never actually finish any of the material and it just fades away again.
So I was wondering if y'all have some recommendations on good math books that hook you, that are very rigorous and formal, but still try to motivate the subject regularly.
When I thought about which subject I would like to revisit the most at uni, my first thought was Functional Analysis. But truthfully, I pretty much loved all of my courses, even those with shitty professors.
Information Theory has also been floating around in my head. I also have an interest in how mathematics gets applied in economics. I also just love iterations and sequences (that's the CS wolf in me)
I hope this wasn't too overbearing, I am just really hoping this will help people with recommendations
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I am just going to try give some specifics about myself, so that people can make some specific recommendations.
So, I have a Bachelor in CS and sort of in parallel I studied Bachelor Math for 5 out of 6 semesters. I had pretty good grades, so I am pretty confident that I would have gotten the degree. Just for various reasons I burned out and had to stop.
I did engage with math after that for a while, in my job which had to do with Digital Signal Processing and AI. But I no longer have that job, so my mathematical activity has strongly declined. Sometimes I do get that itch and read some university material on a random subject and might even be inspired to do some math on paper again. Matrix Analysis was one subject I really enjoyed. But I never actually finish any of the material and it just fades away again.
So I was wondering if y'all have some recommendations on good math books that hook you, that are very rigorous and formal, but still try to motivate the subject regularly.
When I thought about which subject I would like to revisit the most at uni, my first thought was Functional Analysis. But truthfully, I pretty much loved all of my courses, even those with shitty professors.
Information Theory has also been floating around in my head. I also have an interest in how mathematics gets applied in economics. I also just love iterations and sequences (that's the CS wolf in me)
I hope this wasn't too overbearing, I am just really hoping this will help people with recommendations
#science
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