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You start off with the best of intentions, but through raging incompetence, ineptitude or the plain fact that you're working in IT, things go terribly wrong and there's hell to pay. Tell us about the epic failures that have brought big ideas to their knees. Or just blame someone else.

(, Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:19)
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At college
I never finished my A levels because frankly I was too busy humping Mrs SLVA-to-be in the rarely used music practice-rooms.

Then in 1995, I went back and had another go at A level maths and physics, but dropped out after 4 months. Then again in 1999 for 6 months, and again in 2005 when I managed to get an A at AS level maths, but each time losing interest.

I'm now doing a degree in maths with the Open Uni and getting further with it.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:10, 6 replies)
Good Luck!

Stick with it if you can, maths is an excellent subject. Once you get past the basics I would suggest looking at dynamical systems (and if you like that chaos, fractal, and Ergodic theory are awesome).
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:14, closed)
the only problem
is that it's not really a subject you can research on the internet. Which is why it's a toss up between maths and physics at the moment as the modules I've done will count towards either degree.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:28, closed)
You'd be suprised
there are lots of notes for modules put on the internet, I've found whole textbooks worth available!
MIT puts material for most of its courses online. Here is the link:
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/index.htm

Cambridge university notes can be found here:
sites.google.com/site/paulmetcalfe/cambridgemathsnotes

From the times higher education there's the following list:

FREE FOR ALL

To explore the potential of open educational resources, see:

- OpenCourseWare Consortium - www.ocwconsortium.org

- Jorum, the national open educational resources repository - www.jorum.ac.uk

- The Open University's OpenLearn - www.open.ac.uk/openlearn

- MIT's OpenCourseWare - ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb

- Apple's iTunes U - www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning

- CcLearn, a division of Creative Commons dedicated to supporting open learning and open educational resources - learn.creative commons.org/resources

- Open Educational Resources Commons, a network of shared teaching and learning materials - www.oercommons.org

If there's anything specific you'd like notes on feel free to ask me.
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:15, closed)
Fucking Hell....
Good link effort!
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 17:31, closed)
Thank-you

and that was just off the top of my own head. There's much to be found online for mathematics.
(, Sun 6 Dec 2009, 18:51, closed)
humping Mrs SLVA-to-be in the rarely used music practice-rooms
is that a euphemism?
(, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 12:43, closed)

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