Anybody know any good sources for learning maths?

 
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Preferably without a steep learning curve. Need to beef up on the numbers before I take econ at university.

Stuff on calculus, differential equations, algebra, probability theory, stochastic processes and topology would be very welcome. I also have a textbook on the way, dealing with mathematics in economics specifically so I have some kind of foundation to base my development on.

And don't send me to fucking Khan Academy either, you lazy cunts.
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Khan Academy? I don't know how advanced their content is, but it's presented in a nicely digestible way.


 
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Khan Academy? I don't know how advanced their content is, but it's presented in a nicely digestible way.
Lol, literally edited my OP just as you posted that.


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Open courseware stuff is fun but the curve might be a little steep.


 
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Open courseware stuff is fun but the curve might be a little steep.
Any resources are welcome. I'll just bookmark this thread; I won't be accessing what you send me straight away. A steep learning curve isn't desirable, but I won't reject it.


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Open courseware stuff is fun but the curve might be a little steep.
Any resources are welcome. I'll just bookmark this thread; I won't be accessing what you send me straight away. A steep learning curve isn't desirable, but I won't reject it.
I'll get some. Barring that you could also try lurking and maybe asking on here.

http://math.stackexchange.com/

Here's the math portion of MIT OCW site. I know. . .feckn MIT but oh well.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/

I know you said college stuff only but a little review never hurt, I find myself here occasionally.
http://www.purplemath.com/
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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.


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but being totally honest your best bet is to just buy a textbook


 
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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.
The AEA quite explicitly recommends calculus for graduate economics.


 
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but being totally honest your best bet is to just buy a textbook
I have; just looking for complimentary sources.


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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.
The AEA quite explicitly recommends calculus for graduate economics.

Well graduate school, sure. You'll probably have a lot of statistics there, and statistics without calculus is child's play.


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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.
i had to keep mine the old fashioned way. I've even kept a notebook that got pissed on by a dog because it had my engineering notes in it.


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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.
i had to keep mine the old fashioned way. I've even kept a notebook that got pissed on by a dog because it had my engineering notes in it.

Thankfully my school converted to keeping almost everything online. I still have stacks of notebooks filled with my work that I can't bring myself to throw away, but it's nice having access to all the lectures.


 
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Well graduate school, sure.
I'm pursuing it simply because my current background in mathematics isn't all that competitive. No harm in getting a preliminary leg-up.


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I can guarantee you don't need calc for economics unless you're going with some sort of econ-wizard financial engineering route like I did. I saved almost all of my lectures and materials in my dropbox, and I'd share it if my name and personally identifiable information wasn't all over it. I'll check to see if anything can be easily cleaned.
i had to keep mine the old fashioned way. I've even kept a notebook that got pissed on by a dog because it had my engineering notes in it.

Thankfully my school converted to keeping almost everything online. I still have stacks of notebooks filled with my work that I can't bring myself to throw away, but it's nice having access to all the lectures.
Here's the thing we do too but professors aren't required to use it and put that stuff on line. It's kind of a pain.


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Well graduate school, sure.
I'm pursuing it simply because my current background in mathematics isn't all that competitive. No harm in getting a preliminary leg-up.

Some stuff:

All the material from my financial engineering course. The powerpoints are useful to have around, but the excel documents might just be gibberish. If you can take an excel class at your university, do it. It's an unbelievably useful tool for economy.

This is the calculus textbook I used. It's very good, but I kind of doubt you want to spend real money on a math textbook.

Probability distributions are super important in statistics. Khan Academy of course has a structured curriculum on that, but you're better off starting from the beginning at your university.

My preferred statistics textbook

My economic analysis textbook (present/future value stuff, investment math, etc)
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