Did you go through Spivak and Velleman at the same time? How much did Velleman help?
And when you went through Spivak, did you answer all of the problems at the end of each chapter?
Is university math the same flavor as IMO questions? I'm looking at these and boy are they hard! I've looked at questions from different years and I can only do 1 out of like the 10 or so questions I went through.
While listening on my english lecture, my teacher told us that authors usually have similar word choices and sentences structures on their writings.
Because of that, I began to wonder if it is possible (if it hasn't been done already) to quantify the human language (if that's the right term...
Hello, I am an incoming senior. I've normally been pretty good in classroom mathematics. However, only until recently have I been exposed to "competitive problem solving". I literally have not heard of the AMCs until my junior year, when my friend from another school told me about it. I became...
Homework Statement
This is not a homework problem. I was just wondering the logic and intuition behind the "formula" for finding the number of zeros given the factorial of a number.
Homework Equations
Formula : round(n/5) + round(n/25) + round(n/125)+...+round(n/5^n)
Here, round...
I was thinking about that, but I heard LA deals with proofs and I don't know if I can handle that at this stage. I haven't been exposed to "proof-type" math yet so I was wondering maybe I can self study "Intro to Proofs".
And I can't take classes at a local university/CC anymore because we...
Hello. I was wondering if I should self study multivariable calculus or introduction to proofs?
I am an entering high school senior (contrary to what my username might suggest), and I just took a Calc 2 class last spring.
I can only do one or the other, and I don't know which one would be...