Hi, I'm from Portugal and I am 28 years old.
During my high-school years my best subject was math. Then my life turned upside-down as I went to college and changed to a very art-driven course and ended up not studying math for about 8 years (from 2010-2018).
I've been learning college math alone for quite some time now. I started in late 2018, but at a very slow pace because I work full time as a 3D artist (alot of the time I also work over-time
) . I bought a book on Linear Algebra, that is around 400 pages long and has lots of exercises that require full proofs. The first year or so, I only managed to study 2-6 hours a week and sometimes I spent full months without touching it, so I ended up only studying 50 pages or soo from the book. At the beggining of the year I decided to "put pedal to the metal" and in this last 4 months I studied around 90 pages of the book, studying around 12 hours per week or so.
This book feels really heavy, and the fact that I don't have any tutor to study with makes it all the harder.
What are your thoughts on the time it is taking me to study Linear Algebra, and what would be the "ideal" timeframe to complete the book? Considering I can't dedicate 100% to math, since i'm working...
Also, I spend 70% of the time on those pesky "proof" exercises, and I can't seem to be getting any better in solving them... Sometimes one of those exercises takes me around 3-5 hours... What can I do to get better at them?
During my high-school years my best subject was math. Then my life turned upside-down as I went to college and changed to a very art-driven course and ended up not studying math for about 8 years (from 2010-2018).
I've been learning college math alone for quite some time now. I started in late 2018, but at a very slow pace because I work full time as a 3D artist (alot of the time I also work over-time
) . I bought a book on Linear Algebra, that is around 400 pages long and has lots of exercises that require full proofs. The first year or so, I only managed to study 2-6 hours a week and sometimes I spent full months without touching it, so I ended up only studying 50 pages or soo from the book. At the beggining of the year I decided to "put pedal to the metal" and in this last 4 months I studied around 90 pages of the book, studying around 12 hours per week or so.This book feels really heavy, and the fact that I don't have any tutor to study with makes it all the harder.
What are your thoughts on the time it is taking me to study Linear Algebra, and what would be the "ideal" timeframe to complete the book? Considering I can't dedicate 100% to math, since i'm working...
Also, I spend 70% of the time on those pesky "proof" exercises, and I can't seem to be getting any better in solving them... Sometimes one of those exercises takes me around 3-5 hours... What can I do to get better at them?
