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Thanks for the advice. The four books was a bit of an anomaly. I am taking five courses and have four books for Analysis, one book for each of DE / Algebra / Vectors&Matrices, and no book for Relativity. (But add on the lecture's notes to each of those) Yes, the lecturer for the course writes...

Hello guys, I was wondering if anybody had some thoughts on how best to efficiently study Maths on a degree, because I feel that I am missing something. (Note: I am studying in the UK) For my different modules I have a large number of different textbooks of varying difficulty (including four...

I shall try and answer your questions in as much detail as I can, but please remember that everything I say is specific to the EDEXCEL exam board. Every exam board offers a Maths A-level, and they are all equivalent in difficulty, but sometimes differ in content slightly. (Do note, however, that...

Read books.

I would first integrate arctanx by parts (u=arctanx, v'=1), and then integrate xarctanx by parts (u=x, v'=arctanx)

This is not correct. You can take a year of Maths, leading to an AS in Maths. If you decide to do a second year after that, you get a full A-level in Maths. Alternatively, you can take the whole of the Maths A-level in one year. In the second year you can then take the "Further Maths"...

What do people think of somebody in the OP's position trying to self-study from baby Rudin?