Self-teaching basics

Unless you're looking a couple ph.ds down the line, no. Don't even look at Sophomore and up.

Not him but I already gave you a fantastic text to start with you ungrateful groid

>Thanks, I guess, but where do you start with all of that?
see > Which books are good?
A few are mentioned in the list, otherwise most topics are fairly standard and the textbook you use won't really matter

You could think of doing a "start with the Greeks" approach, learning how the subjects developed, and learning at each stage new abstraction and complexity. This is usually what the standard education system is like (at every stage, from primary to undergrad). Now that I'm finishing my master's, I'd suggest to anyone with motivation to not follow this approach. It is extremely inefficient and arduous, and you will be wasting your adult brain.

There is an xkcd picture that gets posted around here a lot dealing with "levels of purity,": (xkcd.com/435/) and logic/philosophy/mathematics usually take the first place, in the sense that "n" is applied "n-1", and actually, for the three topics you mentioned, it does make sense to first start by learning math.

Doing this, you do lose some of the original motivation behind some of the concepts, but when you do reach the motivating example, you will crush it with your toolbelt.

So the idea is to learn math -> physics -> chemistry. The math part is notably going to be the hardest and longest part, but then the rest are just corollaries in your theory.

The pic related is the best meme guide I've seen that teaches a sample progression you should follow. If you already know the basics of precalculus, maybe you could skip the first steps and go straight to Stewart (although the latter could be skipped, it will be invaluable to your study of phys/chem), however, I recommend to at least have a quick review of them. The books of proofs are also indispensable, and I would recommend going through at least Halmos for set theory. You should skip most of the graduate level books if you don't intend to specialize in math though.

Yeah, not looking for a PhD.

>the rest are just corollaries in your theory
This is just silly. Have you ever actually studied chemistry?

Who's mathematical studies does this describe? Terrance Tao's?

I fear no one. It's just a meme this guy uses to boost up his own ego against anyone who doesn't know his memes.

>t. brainlet who never is going to make it.

Thanks AVK ;)