Math + Programming book suggestions please

[Enebreus]

Hey,

I was hoping for a suggestion on a Math book that goes beyond just rote learning into true understanding.

I never really did well in Math in school. My teachers always took the: "Here memorize this" approach.

Today work as a Flash programmer, and I do funky games/experiments in my spare time, see the blog: http://blog.organa.ca/
I've managed to learn quite a lot of math on my own. But there are still a lot of core concepts that I just don't understand (Like dot products).

Anyway, if anyone has read and enjoyed a Math book I'd appreciate suggestions.

Also, if anyone can suggest math websites that intuitively explain basic to advanced concepts I'll gladly check them out.

Thanks,

Peter Organa

[Favardin]

Hm, that's a tough one. You probably should look for game programmers books; math books with real-world examples are hard to find. Have you tried just learning from tutorials and articles? I found that for almost all levels of knowledge there is a fitting article for a given topic (though not always easy to find).

Btw, for the dot product and other vector topics, may I suggest this little article I wrote some time ago? (http://scienceandcode.moomug.com/?p=76) I hope it helps. Also, wikipedia is often a good place to start (also many articles contain errors).

[bluemagica]

Theres a series of books called "Math and Physics for game programmers", there are 6 books, and which are quite informative, also try the "Game Programming Gems" series, it often takes on various math related problems and can really help you learning advanced maths!

[AntifreezeDesig]

Actionscript 3.0 (or the 2.0 version) Animation - Making things move by Keith Peters (Friends of Ed) has been a good resource for me and some of those basics like dist between objects, acceleration, gravity, friction, etc.

[SparK_BR]

http://www.math.com/

has almost everything you need to know
try getting some concept you don't understand yet and use it in a game

it's like the wiki of math