Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by SolveEverything » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 3:14 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by cuchoi » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 4:17 AM UTC

Learning math for programming or by programming? Not sure about the usefulness of programming to learning Math. For Statistics, I can see the added value (https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers).

Do you have any examples?

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by rahimnathwani » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 6:01 AM UTC

Coding the matrix (book)

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by SolveEverything » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 7:35 AM UTC

cuchoi wrote: post #2

Learning math for programming or by programming? Not sure about the usefulness of programming to learning Math. For Statistics, I can see the added value ( https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers ). Do you have any examples?

there's the smart ppl on hn that had talked about how math was way easier when learned by programming

link is somewhere in my massive notes

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by zapperdapper » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 11:32 AM UTC

If you want to learn Math, Kahn Academy is very good.

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by dinosaurs » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

Coding Math (https://www.youtube.com/user/codingmath)

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by maltalex » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

Project Euler [0] comes to mind, although it's more of a collection of math problems to be solved by programming. Definitely not a guide or tutorial.

[0]: https://projecteuler.net/

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by welikethepark » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 8:01 PM UTC

This is something I've been interested in as well. I have dyscalculia and struggled in school with math and formal notation but have never really had a problem when it comes to understanding code. I wish someone smarter than me would teach stuff like algebra, calculus and statistics in something like javascript.

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by vik144 » Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 10:11 PM UTC

Check out this book called "Doing Math with Python". https://nostarch.com/doingmathwithpython

Re: Ask HN: Sites, guides, videos to learn math by programming?

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Post by pasabagi » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code

Take a look at this. It translates a whole load of maths notation into Javascript, which makes it all surprisingly straightforward and non-mysterious, at least as far as the symbols are concerned.