Math, Better Explained

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• hosh · Nov 30, 2022 · Recommends

  …student's experience where they talk about struggling with concepts, like groping about in a dark room until one day, you find the light switch and you see it all come together. The other is Kalid Azad's "Math, Better Explained" series. His approach is to introduce the intuition first, before going into the rigor. Between those two, I realized that I had never really learned how to learn math. Once I started with the intuition,…

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• hosh · Jan 19, 2023 · Recommends

  I restarted with Kalid Azad’s Math, Better Explained. It approached math first by intuition, and then worked out to refine it with proofs.

  on “Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?” ↗
• rmidthun · Feb 16, 2018 · Recommends

  The web site https://betterexplained.com/ has physical books that you can purchase "Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition". The explanations on that website are excellent, I imagine the book is the same.

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• kuroshit · Mar 11, 2018 · Mentions

  …understandable. Now comes the new kind of books which try a different approach to the subject at hand. They try to give more understanding that anything else. I only read "Burn Math Class" by Jason Wilkes and "Math, Better Explained" by Kalid Azad. These books lack exercises, which are, in my opinion, as important as understanding. But one doesn't work without the other. As for the future just follow this[1] so that you won't get…

  on “Ask HN: How to self-learn math?” ↗