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Well, there is no shortage of very good and VERY SIMPLE and rigorous intros to analysis books out today: How to Think About Analysis by Lara Alcock. Understanding Analysis by Steph…

Note the OP chose typical why-books for math majors(Axler/Macdonald). Boas' is a how-book for physicists.

I own this book and I'll tell you it's not easy learning math from this book. Most of it is just very light overview. There are much better rigorous textbooks that are simpler and …

Two things. 1) No such thing as universal mathematician in this day and age. 2) Engineer's PDEs(algorithms) are not the same as mathematician's PDEs(theory). Same as comparing a st…

“I didn’t want there to be an easy way out,” she recently told me. “I wanted him to fight.” Attitude that keeps everything stagnant and backwards.

Colleges are great in that they offer nice infrastructure that's hard to find elsewhere: amazing libraries, laboratories, possibly, access to people doing research in the area you …

A degree also signifies you've given a certain subject a lot of thought. If by that you mean a Bachelor's Degree, than I don't agree with you. First four years of college is just a…

She was born in the West, yet she had no free will to flip her husband off and go live elsewhere in her town/Germany? What an odd story.

I expect part of the problem is that people who are attracted by clear writing and thinking are turned off by the academic fields that suffer most from overly academic writing. In …

Could it be because academic writing is simpler than the literary one? For example, in math, 'for all yada, there exists bla' is different from 'there exists bla for all yada'. So,…

Human biology is an extreme hurdle on our way to achieve the unachievable: having to sleep, eat, excrete etc. Are there any tech and drugs being developed to deal with these things…

Is it always intimidation, though? I find programming unimaginably boring.

This is the funniest thing I read in a long time. I find Dexter admirable.

Watch - in a near future there'll pop up an article explaining how you can't afford to study a little of this and a little of that. It will tell you need to focus on one thing only…

In the olden days there used to be 3 channels on TV max. That's how I see Hollywood. It has maybe 2 and a half concept it keeps selling whereas TV, let alone Internet, wouldn't be …

> On the biology side, I got ridiculed for all the 'hand waving' that seems to happen with the math. Biologists want to see concrete experiments and results. How interesting. Usual…

What's Type Theory and how's it different from Set Theory and Category Theory?

How about LightTable?

That's what Brits call "being polite" :)

I personally don't care about the bird, I am just into coq.

I use Anki to remember and memorize the written info. Pretty effective.

I see. I was typing my code on the left half of the window and expecting the result show up on the right half. It works now. Thank you.

I'd like to learn from this book. > If you ask Pyret for the value of this program, it will unsurprisingly tell you that it’s 3. I am not sure how to do that. In [this tutorial]( h…