Hey nerds, I’m planning on going back to school in a few years and want to smash the math proficiency test so I don’t have to spend years relearning things that will probably only take me a few months at most. What books do you all recommend to get me from college algebra to Calc II or III?

Bonus points for stats and physics recs, as well.

  • It is better, but because of going more fully into the mathematics immediately, it is a bit more advanced. My undergrad university used Griffiths for upper division QM and Shankar for Graduate level. Which is why I recommended it earlier for self training. But there is value in just immediately diving into the full mathematical framework right away.