Re: Learning maths with mathematica
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- Subject: [mg117246] Re: Learning maths with mathematica
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:11:33 -0500 (EST)
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Make use of the various maths lectures on http://www.khanacademy.org --David On Mar 11, 4:33 am, "Berthold Hamburger" <b-hambur... at artinso.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to fulfil a lifelong dream and will embark on a long distance > physics university course in autumn after spending most of my working life > as a professional musician in the abstract world of music. For this > endeavour I have to brush up and recover my long lost maths basics. > > After discovering and trying out Mathematica I have purchased the home > version of this amazing program which, after spending some time with it, I > consider to be the swiss knife of everything. > > I would like to ask for recommendations about what would be the best way to > use the program for the process of studying and practising maths. Are there > any course books available that would outline a path to be followed in > combination with using Mathematica? I am currently studying Jerry P. King's > "Mathematics in 10 lessons" to get the basics back, but I am a little > overwhelmed by the amount of topics that have to be covered and would > appreciate some recommendations in terms of organizing my studies with the > help of Mathematica. > > Regards > > Berthold Hamburger > > -- > > Berthold Hamburger - Cellist/Spain > > Email: beha... at artinso.com > > http://www.artinso.com > > http://www.artemis.artinso.com