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Try reading a good undergraduate calculus textbook. It would be hefty and a bit wordy, and it may take a few months to go through, but calculus requires surprisingly little amount of prior knowledge - even the concept of limit should be defined in the textbook (the famous epsilon-delta).

Also remember that math notations are meant for people. If you learn the sigma summation notation, and if you wonder "So I understand what is \Sigma_{i=0}^{10}, but what is \Sigma_{i=0}^{-1}?" then you're wondering irrelevant stuff. If a math notation is confusing to use, good mathematicians will simply not use it and devise an alternative way to express it (or re-define it more clearly for their purpose).

Also, don't skip exercises. Try to solve at least 1/3 of them after each chapter. Exercises are the "actually riding a bike" part of learning how to ride a bike.



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