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I would strongly recommend getting, and working through Serge Lang's book "Basic Mathematics" for people who want to self-study what is normally considered "basic maths" (ie the stuff you might have covered in high school plus some of what in the US is called "college algebra" (in the UK and Europe that is just covered in high school and "algebra" at university generally means abstract algebra.

I did it to get my very rusty high-school maths back up to snuff before starting to self-study for a maths degree and it helped a lot. The problems are really excellent and since it's Serge Lang, he treats you like a mathematician right from the beginning even though he really is doing basic stuff.


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