I want to download and do some courses on the MIT OCW website. They have some great courses taught by Gilbert Strang up there, including computational methods (numerical analysis) and other classic courses given by prominent teachers. There is a good set of physics lectures given by a noted teacher, there, too.
Before I do those, I wanted to do a forced-march through a calculus review. There are several courses online at ITunesU for calculus and there are calculus courses that can be downloaded from the MIT OCW website, too. Since there are generally 20-some lectures, corresponding to the number of classes held during a semester, I'm thinking it will take two months if I do one lecture a day. I was planning on hitting one course lecture a day, using the best calculus course online to set the pace, and using my books here and other online lectures to do a total review of that one day's lecture topic using multiple sources.
This way, it would take me about 1 month each to do a complete review of each of the following: Calc I, Calc II, Multivariable Calculus, and then Differential Equations. Then I'd be ready for any advanced math and physics courses on the MIT OCW website and other graduate Math/Engineering courses that are popping up online.
Anyone interested in having an online "study group"? It would be good to exchange Q and problem-solving. I will start up a blog user for the study group and will find/install/distribute math type software for online collaboration.
28 Nov 2008, 10:17 am
