The Official Cambridge Offer Holders Thread 2016 Entry MK II

Btw, how is IA going? I haven't been on TSR for a while (finally decided to have a social life) but I am working through Beardon's textbook with the hope that I could finish it by mid-September. I was thinking of being done with it way before that, but I am kind of behind schedule and I really don't want to end up finishing it too early but with a not in-depth understanding. I also got "How to think like a Mathematician" by Houston and "A First Course in Abstract Algebra" by Fraleigh: the former casually reading and the latter hopefully teaching me some rings, fields and Galois theory (doesn't cover linear algebra but goes more in depth of group theory than Beardon, and also teaches Galois theory in second half) after I finish Beardon's.

Lol, I didn't mean to generalise the whole TSR community to be made up of "pink-haired, gender studies majoring 'cucks'", in every community you get those kinds of 'cucks' who would go SJW on anything that goes against what (social) media tells them to think.

I would disagree with you about Houston's book, although the target audience is not students like us, most of the content is pretty fundamental for undegraduate mathematics, and since I am not taking N&S it would be nice for me to casually read through it. The first and third chapters ("Study skills for mathematics" and "Definitions, theorems and proofs" are also pretty useful for how to read and write undergraduate mathematics. But I get what you are saying, most of the content is quite elementary and probably already known for those taking STEP, which is why I am reading it casually and only those chapters that I am interested in.