So here is my problem.
For another project I think, I need to understand this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

particularly the bits with the matrix stuff.
My ex, “helped” me with my photopuppet rig using this type of maths. He solved some rotation/orientation problems in a moment. Things that had taken me months to get no where.

I was impressed, and since then have held a respect and love of mathematics. Unfortunately, he also was not terribly nice to me, and would not tell me what I needed to know in order to understand the building of transform and rotation matrices.

Here is a little bit where I am coming from also.
I was “home-schooled” through out my entire youth. I am no stranger to the life long quest of learning. But I am stuck on this problem. I am not afraid of the time I need to commit to learn. Months, years, whatever. Even if the outcome is of negligible use. I am ready. I just do not know where to start.

I am going to pick back up my math studies again soon. Probably in the late spring, and hope to completely my algebra lessons by mid summer:)

But after that, what comes next? Is it Trig? Is it Calc? Physics? What is the next step towards my goal of learning math?
I don’t know. And I’m in the unfamiliar position of not even knowing who to ask!