I am graduating with a math minor, so like to believe I am aware of how painfully slowly you can move through a textbook with full understanding. I fully agree with you about spending your math points wisely and thanks for the reminder. I do tend to get overly ambitious. If you have a background in math (and AIA) or can point me to others who might be willing to have a zoom call or just a text exchange about how to better focus my math studies I would be very grateful.
Having said that, I do enjoy the study of math intrinsically, so some of the math I look at may be purely for my own enjoyment and I’m ok with that, but it would be good if when I am learning math it can be both enjoyable AND helpful for my future work on AIA. : )
I’m certainly no expert on self-studying maths. I’ve generally found it easy to pick up a conceptual understanding from skimming textbooks, and for some subjects (e.g. statistics, Bayesian probability, maybe logic) I think that’s where most of the value lies. I’ve never had the drive or made the time to work through a lot of exercises on my own, and I’d guess that for subjects like linear algebra being able to actually work through problems is probably the important part.
So if you have a subject where both (i) it’s not clearly relevant, and (ii) getting a useful understanding requires working through a lot of exercises, then I’d probably hold off.
Thank you!
I am graduating with a math minor, so like to believe I am aware of how painfully slowly you can move through a textbook with full understanding. I fully agree with you about spending your math points wisely and thanks for the reminder. I do tend to get overly ambitious. If you have a background in math (and AIA) or can point me to others who might be willing to have a zoom call or just a text exchange about how to better focus my math studies I would be very grateful.
Having said that, I do enjoy the study of math intrinsically, so some of the math I look at may be purely for my own enjoyment and I’m ok with that, but it would be good if when I am learning math it can be both enjoyable AND helpful for my future work on AIA. : )
I’m certainly no expert on self-studying maths. I’ve generally found it easy to pick up a conceptual understanding from skimming textbooks, and for some subjects (e.g. statistics, Bayesian probability, maybe logic) I think that’s where most of the value lies. I’ve never had the drive or made the time to work through a lot of exercises on my own, and I’d guess that for subjects like linear algebra being able to actually work through problems is probably the important part.
So if you have a subject where both (i) it’s not clearly relevant, and (ii) getting a useful understanding requires working through a lot of exercises, then I’d probably hold off.