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I would strongly recommend getting, and working through Serge Lang's book "Basic Mathematics" for people who want to self-study what is normally considered "basic maths" (ie the stuff you might have covered in high school plus some of what in the US is called "college algebra" (in the UK and Europe that is just covered in high school and "algebra" at university generally means abstract algebra.

I did it to get my very rusty high-school maths back up to snuff before starting to self-study for a maths degree and it helped a lot. The problems are really excellent and since it's Serge Lang, he treats you like a mathematician right from the beginning even though he really is doing basic stuff.



Thank you for the recommendation, that sounds much more like my level at the moment!


You are very welcome. The other resource I found excellent was Khan Academy which is free (donation supported) and has videos and supporting resources covering a very wide range on mathematical topics. I would recommend the “precalculus” playlist which is just a general grab bag of topics covering algebra, basic vectors and matrices and a few other things.




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