User:SparseMatrix

Went back to school when I was in my thirties. But math was always a problem, I couldn't seem to get passed algebra. I bumped into George F. Simmons excellent little book, "Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell" and with the problems and the solutions in the back I felt like I had finally mastered the subject. I hoped that he had written a book on calculus to get me started on the college subject and he had, "Calculus and Analytic Geometry". I went through half of it on my own and was ready for the college courses.

I had always had an interest in modern mathematics and so wondered if he had written in Topology. He had. "Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis". With my degree in Biochemistry, I had no job offers. Being in the vicinity of a college library and I was drawn into regular study of mathematics oriented around biological models. I tried to read Thom's "Morphogenesis ..." and began to study manifolds and differential topology. My last efforts were trying to crack the classification of singularities by way of Golubitsky and Guillemin's "Stable Mappings and Their Singularities". That was a while ago and I stalled out at the "Preparation Theorems"

Currently I am having a look at number theory oriented around the Riemann Hypothesis.