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Not the person you are responding, but I also used Spivak for single variable. For multivariable calculus I used Marsden and Tromba. The other Spivak is a great book, but maybe too…

As others have argued, one can learn mathematics without its history, but it is very helpful to motivate many of its abstractions. A good example of this are some of the textbooks …

"All of statistics" by Larry Wasserman. I took a bunch of courses that taught stats as a bunch of independent tools for different problems. AOS helped me to build some a strong fou…

I loved those games when I was a kid. I replayed LBA 1 in 2010 and it had aged quite well. Looking forward to see an analysis from Fabien Sanglard.

I am referring to his technical works like "Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails" or his journal publications (the question is not about his books for the general public like Blac…

A very formulaic article, start with an anecdote that could fit many other articles (it seems Feynmann always shows up when we are talking about learning), refer to some Twitter co…

As soon as I finished my PhD in computational science, I left to the Bay Area. I did consider some positions in academia, but as others have described, the low impact of the proble…

Only to the undesirables students. Quoting the paper, "The Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, the most prestigious mathematics school in Russia, was at that time ac…

Another point of view on why it is not striking that we can model heat conduction well. The heat equation is well-posed, which among other things, means that the solution depends c…

I totally agree. I spent a couple of weeks playing with it a little bit everyday, until I managed to come up with an algorithm.

It is about triangles. The idea that sine is the solution of this ODE for f(0)=0 and f'(0)=1 is quite modern. I would say a course on trigonometry usually covers (my experience): t…

As young students, we are taught that these functions are ratios of sides on right angles. It is fairly intuitive for them that provided they can draw a right triangle, they just n…

I think I am missing something because, I am unable to see why it is huge burden to introduce sine and cosine without their rigorous definition. At which age, are students taught t…

I resort continuously to this list, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-...

I never considered this possibility. Could you recommend some link where I could read about the field and see if I have chance? It is not really what motivates me, but it is worth …

Thanks :) After reading the comments, indeed, I will be considering this possibility.

This path is really appealing to me. Now, knowing that there is a demand for the people between the two worlds, I will spend some time looking for offers, and prepare a CV accordin…

I am in UK.

I am a 27 years old PhD in computational mechanics (finite element method, elasticity ...) who should be graduating in around 6 months. I have been tempted for quite some time by t…

> Now, 30+ years later, it's a bit rusty, but I can still read it pretty well, and can sort-of understand written Portuguese as well. I don't want to be picky. But I would not attr…

Unrelated question, isn't it a bad idea to update the seed for every sample?

I have a similar story to tell. As an undergrad in a course of robotics, we had to program a wheeled robot and all the robots would be place in an environment with obstacles. The r…

You know what would be interesting, to perform this analysis to all past world cups, looking at the group results and computing the possible outcomes of the brackets. And then, com…