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RES.18-009 Learn Differential Equations: Up Close with Gilbert Strang and Cleve Moler
MIT OpenCourseWare
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2018–2025 · score 2.4
A free MIT OpenCourseWare video course in which Gilbert Strang and Cleve Moler teach differential equations, with lectures recorded in 2015 and course materials available online.
Commenters call it a worthwhile free resource from MIT, praising the lectures as lasting gems and recommending it alongside Strang's teaching.
Mathematicsintermediatefreevideo lectures#differential equations#strang#moler#mit ocw#applied mathematics
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I second that.
Also recommend this course by Gilbert Strang @ MIT:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-009-learn-differential-eq...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63oTpyxCMLK...
MIT OCW contains quite a few true gems. These lectures will still be worth watching 100 years from now.
- Differential Equations from 2015: https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-009-learn-differential-...
- The original SICP recordings from 1986: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I should have added this in my original note, but as a programmer, if you’re interested in learning about this I highly recommend Steve Brunton’s course in differential equations and dynamical systems on you tube https://youtu.be/9fQkLQZe3u8?si=Cu7F5QQyljjiG4K8
He’s a really amazing teacher and he goes through all the maths on a lightboard and then writes simulations of all the systems he talks about in python and matlab. All the course materials are available free online. It’s quite extraordinary.
First of all, kudos on the turnaround. I think the most important thing to keep in mind is except for a few scattered geniuses, no one is inherently good at math. I know it sounds like a tired metaphor, but math really is a different language (which takes a lot of study and practice to achieve fluency).
If you lack fundamentals, skip the sources and look for the people. Find a good teacher and take their class. This will probably entail an intense week of course shopping at a local school. Friendly fellow students can be a huge boon, at least for me, since I solidify concepts best in conversations with peers.
If you, for some reason, absolutely cannot take a class in person, I would encourage you to find a study partner and watch online lectures together. I really like MIT's Linear Algebra and Differential Equations videos (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm#Mathemati...), but but I don't know if those are at your level.