how old is too old to learn advanced math

the rule is half your age + 7 from another thread.

lol

Do you feel that you can still "learn"? Are you still "teachable"? That is the question. Learning takes humility. Are you humble?

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You can get a book by Roger Penrose called "The Road to Reality" (or look at it at a bookstore it is paperback and probably in the science section or perhaps physics section).

If you get through that, then I guess you can take college advanced math.

He is a physicist.

Of course he is explaining according to him - A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe.

well, good luck.

i'm always learning @ work and i'm very good at algebra

thanks! that's a good way for me to dip my toes in, i guess

so rule the limit of calculus max is age 14. Then it does not keep up.

in the other thread that was the rule for dating a younger woman

if it is really true for math, i'm depressed

i'm going to push math on my daughter

OP, how advanced ???

Awe Gross man.

[link to www.amazon.com]

If you want to read reviews of "The Road to Reality".

I will say I will never get through it (concerning the math). However, he is still explaining the universe.

This is beyond calculus and such math. This is stare at the pages of math.

i got jipped out of calculus by a teacher scandal (not involving me), so i guess i'd like to start there without skipping anything

i mean high school calculus ...

and i got all the way through my master's without ever taking any math other than statistics, lol

i borrowed a calculus book to limp through some programming classes

So - Calc 1

i am willing and able to start taking math classes at community college so im no longer baffled in threads like the bowling ball thread, lol

it bums me out that it is so foreign to me

but if it's truly a "young minds" thing, i won't bother

Oh, and the book "The Road to Reality" starts off easy enough, but I found out that if I want to spend time starting around the Chapter 5, then I was going to have to spend a great deal more time on it. As it is though, I am in my 60's so Calculus and Differential Equations left my brain a long, long time ago.

He explains it all though.

I write code all day and I'm very good at it. It involves logic, syntax, algebra.

Colleagues who find out I never too calculus are surprised ... not because we use it, but because they took it in high school - when I should have.

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Einstein was in his twenties when he did his thing. I would think that being in your twenties is when hard math should have been took. After that, if you don't use it, which I did not, then you don't bother doing it, and Calculus and Differential Equations is hard enough. (step by step by infinitismal step).

He explains it in the book good enough (The Road to Reality) to see if you even have an inkling of what physics math is all about though by a 1136 page book.

I've used differential equations once, in pool cleaning business. Works well.

Who's the ginger ?

If you're good at algebra and have something of a math mind already I don't really see why you'd have much more trouble learning it than you would have back in the day.

I did alright. I managed to get thru the Cals with a couple Bs and 1 C then got an A in DE.
It was just something of a shock to me getting a C in Cal 1 since I'd always been really good at math and I had never had a C in my life in anything math or science related.

Just a different animal. A lot of theory. A lot of the stuff I could look at and know the answer to but couldnt remember the bullshit way we were supposed to go around the world to figure it out ha
So I guess that's sort of the thing. You may actually do better now than you would have back then if you take it serious and put a lot of time into studying.

At a certain point the math doesn't get any more difficult. Just more crap to remember for the tests.

I'm older than my twenties but could use it in my work.

I worked my way up to developing some nice modeling applications, but another team member did the heavy math.

I wrote some nice algorithms in VB, but there is a gaping hole of understanding in the math dept.

phew, good, that's encouraging - thanks!

It can't hurt to enroll in cal 1, I guess. I'm not going for a degree.

You need to know pre=calculus math.

if youre not an idiot you can learn anything. math is just rules. If you cant remember them - have a book to reference - then do your equations. Math makes sense, but it is complex. Don't let the complexity get in the way, just take it step by step.

I agree. I'd refresh and test myself online before going to the class.

like programming

thanks!