Currently, I'm working through Gilber Strangs new book "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data"
Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
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Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#2There's lectures for that book if you're interested (I don't own the book yet)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method...
In my free time I attempt to work through The Nature of Computation by Stephan Mertens & Cristopher Moore. Edit: Forgot to add, there's lectures for the TCS book too in this playlist specifically 'CS Theory Toolkit' https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWnu2XymDtORV--qG2uG5eQ/pla...
Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#3There's lectures for that book if you're interested (I don't own the book yet) https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-065-matrix-method... In my free time I attempt to work through The Nature of Computation by Stephan Mertens & Cristopher Moore. Edit: Forgot to add, there's lectures for the TCS book too in this playlist specifically 'CS Theory Toolkit' https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWnu2XymDtORV--qG2uG5eQ/pla.…
Nice, thanks!
That sounds interesting. Sadly, I have a huge backlog already...
Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#4I'm working through Oscar Levin's "Discrete Mathematics" - http://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3.html
I studied philosophy in college and am hoping several years of programming experience since will shed some new and interesting light on one of my favorite topics.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#5I am reading "The Art of Statistics" by David Spiegelhalter.
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#6I'm working my way through Ivan Savov's "No bullshit guide to math & physics" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22876442-no-bullshit-gui...
Would recommend it to anyone whose maths needs a bit of a brush up, or anyone who's interested in basic mechanics!
Oh and I'm using Khan Academy for extra practice, which I can warmly recommend as well.
Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#7The predicate calculus. I regularly review Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics[1] to increase my fluency in the techniques. I also recommend A Discipline of Programming[2] as a gentler introduction to the subject for those who do not consider themselves particularly mathematically inclined. For me it was a natural progression from doing TDD. I still code test first, but now the structure of those tests and programs is guided by a better understanding of program semantics, greatly increasing my code quality.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Predicate-Calculus-Semantics-Monograp...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijks...
Re: Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
#8Mostly crawling through ml papers on arxiv. Also going over "The Theory That Would Not Die", though this is in the realm of popular science books but it's an enjoyable getaway from it all.
Edit: How to by Randall Munroe for the math-comedy realm.
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#9Less focused but enjoyed Eddie Woo's and 3blue1brown's more recent videos on Youtube
Also challenged by Tom Duff's trigonometry page - http://www.iq0.com/notes/trig.html
Enjoy learning how to derive identities and equations from first principles - quite like differential of x^2 => 2x and the quadratic eqn via completing the square
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#10Sigmoid / logistic and bell curves to try and predict Covid-19 progress.