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Martial arts (the good kind with full-resistance sparring) is overkill for fights i.e. high school, macho 1 on 1 fights and it's not THAT effective in a true self-defense situation i.e. against multiple opponents, knife (You'll feel the knife before you see it and you'll die if your attacker...

Newton. As to the original question, it takes a combination. You have to be intelligent enough to acquire expertise in the field, you have to have a "rage to master" -- an unbending desire to improve performance and simply do whatever it is your supposed to do, interest ( Because if you love...

Hi, I had the exact same problem for quite sometime. I used to head straight for WoW, or just surfing the net whenever I felt stressed or overwhelmed by all I had to study. What helped me was just not one single thing, the secret is to come up with lots and lots of effective coping methods for...

Hi, I notice that there are many self-study students here on PF so I thought it'd be a good idea to make a quick reference of great books. Please add on as I'm currently only at the precalculus level. These books should assume relatively little to no prerequisite knowledge, explain concepts...

Hi there, I don't know if this has been posted before but I found an online version of both volumes. If I'm not mistaken these links have the full content of this classic set. http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/math/mat6/startdiall.htm http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/math/mat9/startall.htm

Thanks for the suggestion. Sorting through all these math books is a bit overwhelming. And Sullivan certainly seems to be offering the depth and breadth I was craving for! My only quibble is that it's a challenge in itself sifting through his huge number of books. Do you think it's better to buy...

Hey Werg thanks for replying. Basically I'm looking for a practice book for school level problems (precalculus), my aim is enhancing my understanding by doing. But I already bought one book and only have enough money left for about two more! At the indirect suggestion of someone on this forum...

Hey all, I'm looking for a nice big book of math problems dealing with different basic subjects like algebra, geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, logic etc. Basically I'm looking for a book like "Berkeley Problems in Mathematics by Paulo Ney De Souza" but on a high school to first year...