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    <p>Do you have any recommendations of books or websites that would teach me mathematical notation. As a developer I work on a wide range of projects from .NET/SQL Server stuff through to Flash games and I often find myself referring to articles on the internet for guidance. Many of the articles contain mathematical formula, and unless they are accompanied by "plain English" explanations I usually struggle to convert the formula into code.</p> <p>I have a degree in Interactive Multimedia, and so I have had no formal higher math education, however, I don't find math to be too taxing to figure out.</p> <p>Hopefully by learning this notation I will be able to further my knowledge by actually being able to get stuck into more of it.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Note</strong>: <em>please, don't suggest I go back to school, and do a higher math course as, while I know this would be the best bet, it simply isn't an option. Other than that, any and all suggestions are welcome.</em></p> <hr> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>Here are a few types of thing that I program most often. I'm not sure what areas of math these cover.</p> <ul> <li>2d and 3d collision detection</li> <li>Reporting utilities for data collection applications (registration forms, surveys, etc.)</li> <li>2d and 3d vector math, mainly based around games</li> <li>Colour manipulation (programmatically fading from one colour to the next, adding and subtracting colours, making colours lighter / darker on the fly)</li> </ul> <p>Hope this helps add a bit of context.</p>
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    1. COCould you provide some examples of the types of articles you're trying to understand. Mathematics is a big field, matrices, linear algebra, statistics, etc. All of these are useful to a developer, but all require different resources to get up to speed with them.
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