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    Other Should I Become a Mathematician?

    Oh, it wasn't entirely you. It was an exchange made with another poster. You recommended talking to an Applied Mathematician.
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    Need calculus textbook recommendation

    Yes, yes! Thank you for the error catch. I should have simply shifted books around on my desk to reference it correctly. We used it at my university in a course called "Discrete Structures". Sorry about the mistake.
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    Other Should I Become a Mathematician?

    Sorry, to bring up something old, but I read this on the first page. I believe you have given some bad advice. I don't know if it was addressed later and you mentioned someone should ask an Applied Mathematician. That would sort of be me. You advised someone to stay away from majoring in...
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    What resources are recommended for building a home science and math library?

    I am not sure how useful this will be. You can have the most advanced reference books of all time and if you don't buy other books that teach you about the stuff then the reference books are useless. I honestly don't own a single "reference" book. I own a great number of textbooks and I read...
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    Need calculus textbook recommendation

    I've read a few Calculus textbooks, even "Calculus Made Easy" by Thompson. I did not like this book. It did not have very much rigor in it's exposition. When you remove the rigor, lots of things come easier... but I don't think that's as useful. I have read Stewart's book on Calculus and I...
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