{"id":212,"date":"2009-04-29T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-04-29T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:19:41","slug":"autodidactism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2009\/04\/29\/autodidactism\/","title":{"rendered":"Autodidactism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/twofoldgaze.wordpress.com\/\">Kareem Carr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Autodidactism is the art of self-learning or self-teaching.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It is not unusual to have to teach yourself a bit of mathematics.\u00a0 Here are a few resources you might find helpful.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/notices\/200510\/comm-fowler.pdf\">An AMS guide (warning pdf)<\/a> for good books to read by topic.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/mathdl.maa.org\/mathDL\/19\/?pa=content&amp;sa=viewDocument&amp;nodeId=959\">An extensive MAA guide<\/a> to good books to read.\u00a0 It is arranged by topic with ratings.\u00a0 For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/mathdl.maa.org\/mathDL\/19\/?pa=content&amp;sa=viewDocument&amp;nodeId=3233\">here<\/a> is the abstract algebra page.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/OcwWeb\/Mathematics\/index.htm\">MIT open course ware<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academicearth.org\/subjects\/math\">Academic Earth<\/a> has a few courses on video.<\/p>\n<p>5. Here is one more link that is near to my heart. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerice.com\">Feed some hungry kids<\/a> and learn some new words at the same time.\u00a0 At no cost to you, they donate rice for every word you get right.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kareem Carr Autodidactism is the art of self-learning or self-teaching.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2009\/04\/29\/autodidactism\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-3q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}