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I love that they have problems you can solve as well at the end of (almost) every chapter.

This IS a lot of math (1,962 pages) and it’s missing a preface/introduction which would have been helpful to understand if I need to go linear or if a la carte is okay. At the moment I’d assume each major section is independent.

Awesome find! Wonder how It’s used. (One of) the author(s) seems pretty prolific too - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/




Every time I came across a new book on HN, I feel more needs to be done in my rest of life :)


> a la carte

Yeah, I wish we had an online resource (other than Wikipedia) anyone could learn any sort of math from in a systematic way... Oh well.


I'm wondering - is this a genuine request, or a snarky, implicit reference to an online resource for learning math somewhere?

I'd love to know about the existing resource, if it exists. (The only thing that comes to mind is Wolfram Alpha, which didn't seem 'systematic' the last time I skimmed the main page)


Maybe they were referring to Khan Academy?

https://www.khanacademy.org/math


I think Khan academy for higher math/physics/chemistry /CS would be invaluable. Maybe it could be crowdsourced in some way?


Well, there's always 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw Take a look at his course, Essence of Calculus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM&list=PLZHQObOWTQ... I'm not fluent in math, but I find it fascinating to watch, for some reason. NancyPi is also great: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRGXV1QlxZ8aucmE45tRx8w Oh, and don't forget the Mathologer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg What a great guy! While I'm at it, go watch Numberphile too: https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile Is there anyone I forgot? :D


The way i'm trying to learn math right now is with https://ocw.mit.edu, then you can look up into CS or Math programs to progress with other courses


https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate#37105

Oxfords course stuff provides some structure to the interested user


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