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u/jacobolus · 11 pointsr/math

Your post has too little context/content for anyone to give you particularly relevant or specific advice. You should list what you know already and what you’re trying to learn. I find it’s easiest to research a new subject when I have a concrete problem I’m trying to solve.

But anyway, I’m going to assume you studied up through single variable calculus and are reasonably motivated to put some effort in with your reading. Here are some books which you might enjoy, depending on your interests. All should be reasonably accessible (to, say, a sharp and motivated undergraduate), but they’ll all take some work:

(in no particular order)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (wikipedia)
To Mock a Mockingbird (wikipedia)
Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design
Geometry and the Imagination
Visual Group Theory (website)
The Little Schemer (website)
Visual Complex Analysis (website)
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (website)
Music, a Mathematical Offering (website)
QED
Mathematics and its History
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics
Proofs from THE BOOK (wikipedia)
Concrete Mathematics (website, wikipedia)
The Symmetries of Things
Quantum Computing Since Democritus (website)
Solid Shape
On Numbers and Games (wikipedia)
Street-Fighting Mathematics (website)

But also, you’ll probably get more useful response somewhere else, e.g. /r/learnmath. (On /r/math you’re likely to attract downvotes with a question like this.)

You might enjoy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2mkmk0/a_compilation_of_useful_free_online_math_resources/
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/top/?sort=top&t=all

u/Tiwazz · 9 pointsr/programming

Re: books and future topics to explore I found First order logic to be a good replacement for the interesting problems I used to have. Another redditor linked Raymond Smullyan's puzzle books, To Mock a Mockingbird and Forever Undecided which lead me into the former.

If you're used to Erlang you've probably got a leg up on anyone without a logic programming background, but there's still a lot of depth there to get lost in. Good luck! :-)

Edit: Oh, and I've found meditation to help with the most extreme edges of my AD(-H)D fwiw. But being sans hyperactivity it's like a bird telling a fish how to swim, so ymmv.

u/willardthor · 7 pointsr/math

Indeed; you may feel that you are at a disadvantage compared to your peers, and that the amount of work you need to pull off is insurmountable.

However, you have an edge. You realize you need help, and you want to catch up. Motivation and incentive is a powerful thing.

Indeed, being passionate about something makes you much more likely to remember it. Interestingly, the passion does not need to be a loving one.

A common pitfall when learning math is thinking it is like learning history, philosophy, or languages, where it doesn't matter if you miss out a bit; you will still understand everything later, and the missing bits will fall into place eventually. Math is nothing like that. Math is like building a house. A first step for you should therefore be to identify how much of the foundation of math you have, to know where to start from.

Khan Academy is a good resource for this, as it has a good overview of math, and how the different topics in math relate (what requires understanding of what). Khan Academy also has good exercises to solve, and ways to get help. There are also many great books on mathematics, and going through a book cover-to-cover is a satisfying experience. I have heard people speak highly of Serge Lang's "Basic Mathematics".

Finding sparetime activities to train your analytic and critical thinking skills will also help you immeasurably. Here I recommend puzzle books, puzzle games (I recommend Portal, Lolo, Lemmings, and The Incredible Machine), board/card games (try Eclipse, MtG, and Go), and programming (Scheme or Haskell).

It takes effort. But I think you will find your journey through maths to be a truly rewarding experience.

u/larvyde · 3 pointsr/AskOuija
u/mysleepyself · 2 pointsr/logic

There are probably a couple boolean logic ones? I haven't played a lot of logic games. I used to play a game called tis-100 which is a game about a weird parallel assembly type language that I found pretty fun, it has some logic elements to it. It looks like there are a few logic games on the android playstore but I can't vouch for any specifically.

I know a couple books that looked kind of fun:

https://www.amazon.com/Mock-Mockingbird-Raymond-Smullyan/dp/0192801422?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0192801422

Some of the recommended ones for this book that popped up for me looked cool as well.

Dover has some cool looking recreational logic books.

You can also always try and make new formulas to work on for yourself by using chapters from topics that you already covered as inspiration.

So if you know propositional logic then you can make some propositional arguments and try to prove or refute them for yourself.