Math Textbooks, Yeah, I'm a geek and I know it...

[poincaraux]

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1. Spivak


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I thought you were setting him up at first. To the OP: if you get this, make sure you get the right one. Spivak also wrote a very short, very dense Calculus book. It covers all sorts of interesting things, but it's probably quite far from the somewhat gentle Calc. book you're looking for. Get the long book, not the short book.

Ah .. I found it .. the other Spivak book is Calculus on Manifolds. Great book, but probably not what you want.

[scotty34]

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Calculus really isn't that high of a level of mathematics. I covered that in high school. Math gets really nasty in college. I don't think you'd like math if you took some of the courses that I took.

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I have read in one of my philosophy texts as well as heard one of my professors say that calculus is one of man's greatest inventions (discoveries?) in the last millenium. There is far more to calculus than just "take the derivative" and "integrate." My school offers courses in Calculus at least until fourth year, and quite possibly even beyond that.

[scotty34]

Hey, I'm at UBC too. What year are you in, and are you living on campus?

[rusty JEDI]

I am now in education and doing my practicum in Port Coquitlam. I live in Poco right now, but move back for the rest of the summer semester in the beginning of July where i live off campus.

rJ

[scotty34]

I've been in Totem for the last two years doing Commerce. I'm probably getting a place in Kits next September with a friend of mine. Just curious, are there any other 2+2er's you know of from UBC, or are we the only ones?

[etgryphon]

Right now. My Top Picks are:

1) Carnegie-Mellon. I'm already in the Masters of Software Engineering program so I think it won't be too hard to transfer over to the Computationaly Finance.

2) U of Cal at Berkeley. I really like the looks of their program and they seem to do some good thing. Plus California would be nice.

3) MIT. Looks like their PhD program is better but it is MIT.

4) U of Chicago. I like the program, but Chicago is a bit of a bummer.

5) Stanford. Looks pretty good.

That all I have looked at right now. I'm looking for a 1 to 1.5 year program.

-Gryph

[DiamondDave]

"Probability and Statistics" by Morris DeGroot (an undergraduate text) is useful and easy to read.

[edtost]

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There is another "Forgotten" book for algebra and assuming it covers linear I guess that could work too.

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"This updated book is a self-teaching brush-up course for students who need more math background before taking calculus"

i highly doubt the forgotten algrebra book coveres anyhting even tangentially related to what the OP needs to review.

[SippinSoma]

YOU POOR GEEK.

ps: DURNK AZ FUK.