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Over the past few days I have been pondering about this: I enjoy technical things (like programming and stuff) and try to find the patterns and algorithms in everything. My life is number oriented. I'll spend all day working on a programmatic problem. I'll spend however much time is needed to think of an elegant/efficient solution. Yet I have am not as good with high school Algebra (I am sixteen)... I don't get it. How can I love numbers but not be very good at math? I think I slacked off in my earlier years in math classes because I found them to be boring. I feel like I am behind a wall. On the other side is math. I need to lower down this wall, but at the moment I am unable to identify it or its cause. I feel like I love math, but am no good at it or have been taught poorly. I understand that I can get no where in Computer Science if I am bad at math. I find some aspects of math to be boring... perhaps teachers don't do well at explaining it in the US (I've researched). Since I assume there are some great mathematicians here, I would like to request some advice.

Thanks.

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    Dear Tod, Let me iterate Amitesh's request that you specify in more detail what parts of math you feel behind in or that you don't understand. You could do this by describing some specific topics, or (maybe even better) giving an example of a problem or class of problems that you don't know how to solve. Regards,2011-07-08
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    @Aryabhata I am cleaning up this comment discussion thread which veered rather off topic.2012-01-06
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    @AmiteshDatta see above.2012-01-06
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    [It reminded me of this](http://youtu.be/PHQOSfnV4hM).2013-03-23

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