Re: Learning maths with mathematica
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- Subject: [mg117240] Re: Learning maths with mathematica
- From: hrh1818 <hrhan at att.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:10:28 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 11, 3:33 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 One sugestion <http://www.amazon.com/Students-Introduction-MATHEMATICA-Handbook- Precalculus/dp/0521717892/ref=sr_1_8? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1299891917&sr=1-8> If you could tell us what field physics you will be studying perhaps someone could recommend a book nearer to your area of interest. Howard