A Brief History of Time

[Gorek]

Anyone interested in these kind of books? I've always been a huge SciFi fan and thus read many books with the type. And anyways science, physics, space just boggles my mind and I love reading about how such things work.

I recently finished reading "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. I found it very interesting and somehow I even understood most of it. I'm now in the process of reading The Universe in A Nutshell, which is also by Stephen Hawking but has more pictures and goes over some different topics not discussed in the other book.

I've always wanted to have some type of career in physics, the only bad part is I am HORRIBLE at math, I think I have somewhere close to a D average right now in Algebra 2.

My mind just doesn't work like you need it to for math. I really do well in geometry type problems and anything with variables.

On a side note, anyone here know of a website with above average tutorials on explaining algebra lessons that they could recommend? On the count of the series of books we read from, Saxon, really blows.

[Skozat]

Math never really clicked for me until I had a good teacher. IMO, that makes all the difference. Ask lots of questions, try to anticipate answers ahead of the teacher, use the same path they did to get from A to B, make sure you understand all the processes involved. Ask more questions.

I really think you need to be able to talk to someone to understand mathematical logic. If your teacher blows, you're kind of screwed unless you get a tutor.

[Venom714]

Originally Posted by Skozat

Math never really clicked for me until I had a good teacher. IMO, that makes all the difference. Ask lots of questions, try to anticipate answers ahead of the teacher, use the same path they did to get from A to B, make sure you understand all the processes involved. Ask more questions.

I really think you need to be able to talk to someone to understand mathematical logic. If your teacher blows, you're kind of screwed unless you get a tutor.

Well said man. I got fucked over. Last year I had this teacher for Algebra 2 that knew very well how to od math... but jsut couldn't explain it well enough for people to understand.

and im one of those kids that needs to be told EXACTLY how to do math, or i won't get it. I'm very quick at everything except math. So i failed last year. and now i have her AGAIN this year... and the same thing is happening. my counselors say its beacuse im lazy. no its beacuse they gave me the same piece of shit teacher. my laziness is a different factor
that and my girlfriend. hah.

[Hunglo]

I've read a few of his books and enjoyed them all. I'm currently reading On the Shoulders of Giants.