Lately, I’m running to all sorts of issues that require math, strong math, and I finally decided to learn math again. I should say remember though…

When I was second grade in high school, the school took a math exam to find out who to send to mathematics Olympiads.

The exam was for 3rd graders but me and one of my friends made it into the mathematics Olympiads in our province.

I became 8th in that exam and it was very hard, I didn’t make it to the country wide exam but I was very good at math for my age, I was reading more advanced books.

When I was a third grader, everyone thought I would make it all the way to the world mathematics Olympiads but I missed the opportunity to signup for the exam and I was late; that was a huge disappointment for me…

To put it in perspective, when we were in 3rd grade, I scored 19.25 out of 20 in our “Calculus, Differential and Integral” final exam, where NO ONE in our school scored more than 15!

Those days are gone and since I didn’t use math I forgot almost everything but a few theorems and I have to learn them again.

So I started with an absolute beginner math book, and now I’m reading “Calculus Made Easy” by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner.

This book as absolutely amazing, it’s in print for 75 years!!!! and it was rewritten at 1946, then Martin Gardner updated and expanded the book in 1998 to make it even better.

If you want to learn math over again, you need to know calculus, then you can move on to more advanced topics like linear algebra etc.

This book is so much fun that I can’t stop reading it and I pick it up every little chance I get and hey I understand all of what I read!

The new Calculus books are a mess, they are so big and so thick and so poorly written that they make you hate the topic, but this book is exactly the opposite.