<p>My D is away oversees in a program that is moving slow leaving her with a lot of free time. She is a math major and would like to do some math to have a structure in her day. What would be a good approach? Do a putnam style drill? Go conceptual?</p>
<p>If she has access to internet, she should check out EdX. </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.edx.org/[/url]”>https://www.edx.org/</a></p>
<p>MIT, Stanford etc also have recorded classes on their own websites.</p>
<p>Thank you. She only has her phone. She may be able to do it on the phone. Not sure. MIT seems to have a good selection. The regular courses she will get during the semester. Is there something off the regular curriculum?</p>
<p>In edX they were listing aerodynamics and statistics under Math and I not sure they would be regular. If she is able to take classes at MIT then she can try other schools. </p>
<p>Have you found this page?</p>
<p>[Audio/Video</a> Lectures | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials](<a href=“Search | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials”>Search | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials)</p>
<p>When building a math library, many consider this to be the first book to put in it.</p>
<p>“What is Mathematics?”
By Richard Conant</p>
<p>“It is a work of high perfection, whether judged by aesthetic, pedagogical or scientific standards. It is astonishing to what extent What is Mathematics? has succeeded in making clear by means of the simplest examples all the fundamental ideas and methods which we mathematicians consider the life blood of our science.”–Herman Weyl</p>
<p>[What</a> Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods: Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart: 9780195105193: Amazon.com: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-Methods/dp/0195105192]What”>http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-Methods/dp/0195105192)</p>
<p>texas, except the regular MIT site, the online courses seem focused on intro requirements that my kid has mostly satisfied.</p>
<p>latichever, That sounds like an interesting read. I’ll send the link to my kid. </p>
<p>Any other ideas? Please keep them coming.</p>
<p>I’ve had a hard time getting edX to work on my phone. </p>
<p>Have her download the app called Grace to listen to lectures and videos from several academic sources.</p>
<p>I"m assuming that she already knows about Khan Academy but just in case she does not, many highly recommend it.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.khanacademy.org/[/url]”>https://www.khanacademy.org/</a></p>
<p>Does Khan Academy go beyond k-12?</p>
<p>romani, thank you for the tip on the app. I’ll pass it on.</p>
<p>I went to Khan’s site and looked up math, since that is your daughter’s interest. Then I clicked on calculus and read: Topics covered in the first two or three semesters of college calculus. Everything from limits to derivatives to integrals to vector calculus.</p>
<p>^Thank you for looking them up. My kid is done with all housekeeping courses.</p>
<p>I scanned my bookshelf and came accross two book; Prime Obsession-Bernard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics by Derbyshire and Everything and More- A compact History of infinity by David Foster Wallace. Are they written exclusively for non-math people?</p>