- How do top students study?
I am specifically referring to STEM students from top universities and/or those with a full gpa (4 in the usa, 6 in switzerland etc...): how do you organize your study and how do you concretely,...
275 points71 comments4 d ago
- Do people who do math/stats professionally (academics, scientists, etc.) also struggle with understanding math-heavy notations?
I am learning machine learning for my research in behavioral science and I often come across papers and textbooks with math-heavy notation. I did a little bit of statistics in undergrad so I...
68 points26 comments1 d ago
- Natural number directly between a square and a cube
On a German TV quiz show a few days ago, there was the question which natural number was the only one immediately after a square and immediately before a cube. I obviously quickly found that 26 is...
68 points19 comments6 d ago
- How are fractions and Division same?
i started learning mathematics from scratch and i am confused at this point... How are fractions same as division? suppose i have fraction 2/3 which means i have 2 parts out of 3 total parts so...
66 points74 comments6 d ago
- Where do I start in linear algebra?
I just started uni and I feel like a caveman when it comes to linear algebra even YouTube gives me a hard time trying to understand the fundamentals. I'm asking for where I can find the...
45 points31 comments2 d ago
- Just started my maths degree, does it get better?
Hi. I started my maths degree this academic year after getting on to my goal university. I was very strong with A Level Maths and didn't do Further Mathematics so I feel as if I'm at a pretty...
43 points18 comments4 d ago
- I struggled with basic maths as a child. Now I’m learning it again with AI.
Hey guys, I’ve started learning basic maths with AI, and I want to share why this means so much to me. When I was a kid, I really struggled to learn basic maths. I was very good at theoretical...
39 points11 comments6 d ago
- is there an intuitive reason the harmonic series diverges even though the terms go to zero?
i know the grouping proof (1/3+1/4 1/2, 1/5 to 1/8 1/2, and so on) and i can follow it, but it still feels weird to me. the terms shrink to zero so my gut says the sum should settle somewhere....
33 points63 comments5 d ago
- Advice needed on becoming proficient in math.
Hello! As a general overview of myself, I’m a 23 year old electrical engineering student. Who had recently discovered a passion for mathematics. I was never very good at math as a kid but up until...
27 points9 comments12 h ago
- from the basics
hello everyone, i really want to completely restart my math journey from the absolute beginning. to be totally transparent, i am genuinely so bad at math lol. i’m at a high school level at best...
27 points17 comments3 d ago