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>tell myself I'll study applied maths for engineers and physicists (finished university already)
>suffer a collapse of motivation after period procrastination
I get instantly bored by rudimentary plug and chug but get extremely frustrated by my brainlet brain with "show that..." questions, where the answer always starts with "consider [the last thing you'd ever consider"]
What the hell do? What are the fun or useful parts of maths?
What are the 100 % barebones parts that you'd consider important? Is learning most maths important if I did well in high school?
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>>8605328
So you got a degree, just not in science or engineering?
I don't know the answer. What you find fun/useful is a personal thing.
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>>8605333
I got an engineering degree at a shit low standard university.
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>>8605328
Don't waste your time studying something you don't love, it will be a boring chore and you'll never get really good at it anyway.
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>>8605328
Here are the essentials in math with book recommendations. I recommend starting with linear algebra or analysis. You'll know whether math is for you after these two as well.
Algebra: Hoffman and Kunze's linear algebra. Artin or Herstein's algebra.
Analysis: Rosenlicht and Rudin's analysis. Rudin's real and complex analysis. Ahlfors and Conway or Lang's complex analysis.
Geometry: Armstrong or Munkres's Topology. Spivak's calculus on manifolds. Milnor or Guillemin and Pollack's differential topology.
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