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The man it was made for tried it with his daughter: http://wadler.blogspot.com/2007/05/oh-no-alligators.html

Thank you!

Perhaps you might enjoy an essay I wrote on this very topic, based on my experiences of learning math on my own for 5 years: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-…

It's hardly 'long-forgotten'... From Körner's book 'Fourier Analysis' (CUP, 1988): "[...] Kelvin ... designed and built a ... machine (the harmonic analyser) to perform the task 'w…

That was a well written article up until the links to sites behind Harvard University's paywall accessing service.

Of course, the problem with things like this, Huff's book, everything by David Freedman, etc., is that people want to lie with statistics. To put it more prosaically, people have b…

What a lovely comment!

What choices did you make that make KaTeX faster than MathJax? (i.e. 'how is it done?')

Here's something you might find interesting: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/698.htm... There have are also loads of replication projects, some currently ongoi…

I think that's a very important point. Indeed, when you try to explain something simply to people, they often won't believe that it's really that simple, since there's all those sy…

As someone who knows it intimately, I would like to say that this kind of thing is endemic across the social science literature. What is frustrating is that only very few people se…

I tried. I was hoping for something more like: "a field is something you can add, subtract, multiply, & divide in" and less like: "a field is a set that is a commutative group with…

I'm curious - can anyone point me to an overview/exposition of this that is more hand-wavy than the book? I'm interested understanding the ideas in this work, because proofs as obj…

That's fine, I like theoretical problems too.

I was wondering: I find this topic interesting from a conceptual point of view, but I'm reluctant to learn more about it without having some concrete useful application as motivati…

Again a bit of a tangent, but I wrote an essay on learning math on your own based on my experiences: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-3... - perhaps it wi…

Wow, thank you so much! Finally I'll be able to understand what Arnold is on about in his talks! :-)

Thanks for that insightful explanation! I was wondering: could you explain in a nutshell what the KAM theorem is all about? I've heard about it many times, but I still have no idea…