Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?
rickdangerous1: I'm in the similar situation as you (OP).
My high school education was interrupted quite badly and 13 years after graduating I lack confidence in my comp sci endeavors because my maths sucks so bad. 
I'd be interested to hear of any hackers who have missed education milestones (like high school maths) but gone and successfully filled in the gaps. 
The reason I'm asking is because I'm kind feeling that things like maths knowledge is layered on year after year and if you lack the foundation its really a huge amount of work to repair each successive layer.Passing on some wisdoms to the young hackers around here...
 I wish someone had grabbed me by the face in highschool and told how important all these layers of skills/knowledge would be for getting the kind of jobs I want now. <I come from a blue collar background - by the time I realised how important education was (age 22) it was too late to do much about it>