Does anyone have tips/resources to become good at math and develop an intuitive understanding of it?
I have heard of „The art of problem solving“ book series as a good resource to improve one‘s math skills.
thanks
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Why? Just for the sake of being good at math? What kind of math?
Get a PhD in Math from MIT or Princeton.
Sorry, reading a book won’t make you a math king. nothing but hard work. if it helps going through same thing, I’ve not done maths in 4-5 years it not easy getting back to where I was. Massively out of practice 😂.
I’m back to basics, hour day, learn, practice, test.
Best of luck.
You get good at math by solving problems, not reading problems. How strong are your fundamentals? AoPS has some good problems but it's mainly geared towards middle and high schoolers preparing for competitions. I'd start with intro texts like Book of Proof to build a solid understanding of sets, equivalence, maps, proofs, real numbers; and Analysis I to understand calculus. Try to solve every problem in those books; these books alone will help you improve in solving basic math problems. Then move on to whatever you're interested in: algebra, topology, geometry, probability, etc. You can also try Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience, which was a favorite of mine in high school
Thanks for your response. I’d like to improve my fundamentals, hence an unorthodox box series like AOPS with relatively hard problems might be a good choice. Don’t you think that the book that you recommend wouldn’t be ideal to improve ones fundamentals, but rather something you would read once they are solid? Thank you
Don't get laid. Ever.
You have cause and effect all mixed up here.
You don't get laid as a result of doing too much math.
It isn't cause and effect. It is a requirement, you must spend all of your time doing math which leads to no sex.
I found working through Euclid's Elements highly rewarding. Dry as bones in the Nevada desert, but damn, that guy really uses the Lego Tower principle of Mathematics to full effect.
That's a classic. SB for a true math aficionado
Lol not really, I actually suck at stringent logical thinking, I just read it to prepare for the GMAT and I found it to be quite helpful
Earn a Field’s Medal or solve the Millennium Prize problems, then you will be Math King.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
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