Teaching myself maths

[Cromulent]

I want to get into electronics and to do that I need to improve my maths skills by a lot.

I've done some research, and these books seem to be recommended:

Foundation Mathematics by K.A.Stroud
Engineering Mathematics by K.A.Stroud
Advanced Engineering Mathematics by K.A.Stroud

Has anyone read any of those books, or do you have something else to recommend? It'll cost me £130 to get those three books, so I want to be sure they are suitable before spending a massive amount of money on them.

Or has anyone else found an alternative way into electronics?

 

[Cromulent]

Look at apps like khan academy, free and go from very basic to well beyond A level.

Khan Academy looks good. Thank you for the tip.

 

[Cromulent]

If the Engineering Mathematics volume used to be a light blue paperback, that’s the one that got me through the mathematics part of my HNC in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in the mid 1980s.

I remember it doing a fantastic job of explaining A level and beyond mathematical concepts to someone who hated the subject at school and barely scraped an O level.

Cool. Thank you. I'll see how far I can get with the free stuff and then pick up the books when I need something a bit more specific.

 

[Cromulent]

You seem to start a lot of threads about things you're planning to do yet you don't seem to actually do them so perhaps just start slowly and try to stick with it.

I mean at the start of 2019 you were thinking about doing a maths degree, I took the time to reply in that thread with a bunch of course recommendations + a book recommendation for you:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...-degree-does-anyone-have-any-advice.18845165/

Then months later you were asking again:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...maths-required-for-game-development.18872728/

So 3 years later have you actually done anything? The first book of the three you've mentioned is fairly basic so I presume not.

Why not just buy one book and try to get through that first perhaps.

Yeah, I know I've been all over the place. I have been trying to find something to do that I can get into and improve my life as I have schizophrenia, depression and anxiety which has basically meant that I have been mucking around with a whole range of different topics and have failed to get into anything serious. I was released from the hospital on the 13th of December 2021 after a 4-month stay. I didn't have anything to do while in hospital and was just reevaluating my life and I thought I'd try my best to find something new to do. The only thing I've ever been reasonably successful at was programming but I find making websites a bit boring and my Dad was always into physics which I have an interest in as well. So I was thinking I could combine maths, physics and programming in one by doing electronics and I'd find that a pretty interesting subject.

I don't know if I'll succeed at this. Chances are I'll probably struggle but I've got to try at the very least for my own well being.