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Dear fine people from India! Would anyone be able to translate this inscription into English? This book belonged to my Indian Math advisor/professor in college which he gave me to study for the whole year with him. When I graduated, he gave it to me as a gift .
The best way to learn math is to do math. Find a quiet place and do the exercises in each section of the book. As many as you can every single day. Form a habit and stick to it. Get it done.
If you are self studying math, Schaums Outlines are a really great help when you need to see lots of different examples, solved problems, etc. Highly recommended.
If you want to improve your logic game.... Watch this guy give a lecture, step by step on logic, set theory and proof writing! (Search for MathMajor channel on YouTube )
Math grind after work, doing the exercises. Some of them are tricky... If I get stuck, I write the problem on a piece of paper, and keep it with me everywhere I go... To think about the problem till the solution presents itself...
A great Mathematician from India by the name of Ramanujan came aboard a ship to England to study math with Prof. G.H. Hardy ... My math professor came from a small Indian village with this book to Canada, to study Pure Mathematics. How absolutely amazing! 😍
If you going to self study math... Do not stick with only one textbook for a particular subject. I think that is a mistake and you are bound to get stuck and frustrated. It's important to look at different sources!
This is what I'm studying every single day till the whole book is finished. My little challenge. Finishing chapter 4 now (relations) and about to start functions. Two chapters at a time.
P. S. I print the chapter books for self study at work, and bind them at home with glue.
When I was an undergrad student, I always wanted to be like Paul Erdos, the Hungarian traveling Mathematician. I think I have become a traveling math student.
To study math for zero $... This is what I often do without buying any math books. I search online for free PDF math downloads of books or exercise workbooks dealing with logic or set theory. Prof. Harris Kwong has an excellent PDF download on Discrete Math. It's fantastic!
Math Sorcerer has a right idea... Collect math books! I organized mine based on a math topic. Second shelf(brown covers) are my main go to for set theory, logic and proof writing.
Top is probability, analysis, topology, and abstract algebra.
I always try my hardest to do all the exercises in each section of the book. I circle those that seem tricky and move on to the next one. The tricky ones I write down on a piece of paper and think about it for a few days...
This is the book that got me really interested in mathematics. My old calculus textbook by Howard Anthon from the High School days. And to think I had to carry this heavy monster to class every day!
If you want to get into Abstract Algebra but don't know where to start... I highly recommend the book by Fraleigh as a good starting point.
P. S. Another excellent book (I don't have it but studied it) is the book by Gallian, full of great examples.
For those who have no idea what Abstract Algebra even is.... It's a branch of mathematics that studies different types of algebraic structures (sets equipped with binary operation(s)) like groups, rings, integral domains, or fields. It's a beautiful thing!
I love math but I also love to read and make cute, little book cases. My log home book case is a slow going process .... The idea came to me after watching this interesting guy named Shawn James from YouTube who built his own log cabin using only hand tools!
Thought I would share my 1st book case that I made over 6 years ago out of pine boards I bought at Home Depot. Took me 6 months to finish with only hand tools.
I would love to say thank you so much to Mrs/Ms. Trisha Sengupta for writing a beautiful article about my math book and wonderful people of India who helped shed light on the mysterious inscription on the top of the page. Really learned so much about people's rich customs.
Whenever I pick up an old math book from my shelf, it's like visiting an old friend... This one is very special to me. It's my old copy of Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Baby Rudin, 1st edition I think) that was given to me as a gift when I graduated college.
Wow I had no idea my little post about a math book would go viral! Thanks to everyone who shed some light on the mysterious inscription in my book. Love you! 🤟
My weekend trip to a local thrift store and look what I found..... If you are new to math or haven't done any math in ages.... give these a try. We all had to start somewhere. It's never too late to start learning!
If you enjoy reading books about mathematics and famous mathematicians.... This one is great! It's a story about a traveling Mathematician from Hungary, Paul Erdos (pronounced air-dish). Specialty number theory and combinatorics I think.
If you are curious about logic and would like to study it for yourself, there is a free PDF download by Prof. Harris Kwong on Discrete Math lectures. I just printed sections on logic and set theory and bound it together into a workbook.
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Hat makes perfect sense now. My Math Professor said he bought this book in an Indian Book Store in Bombay and wanted to take it with him cause he was accepted to study pure math in University of Toronto, Canada.
Been thinking about this problem since yesterday afternoon.... This morning while shaving an idea struck and I had to write it down! I think it works...
The hardest part about self studying math is not being able to check your results if you are on the right path and your reasoning is logically sound. Thanks to Twitter and very fine math nerds out there, now I can! So thank you.