Time spent learning Calculus is worthwhile; and if nothing else, understand the fundamental theorem. Overwhelmingly impressive.
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#142I'm embarassed somewhat to say this, but over the past few weeks I've been taking the courses on Khan Academy on mathematics. I'm nearly 30. and I'm not talking about brushing up on my linear algebra, that comes later, I'm talking high school level mathematics, stuff that I've largely forgotten or didn't "get" first time round. I've seen these "machine learning for hackers!" articles who try to dish out a bit of math…
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone has their own philosophy of mathematics. To me, the core idea is the idea of representations, such that those representations allow you to extract patterns (aka similarity or commonality) from various cases.
Aren't metaphors and analogies representations that allow us to extract patterns?
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#144Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#145In my experience, everything is easy if you DON'T try to learn it using analogies and metaphors.
I think that is a very "mathematician" thing to say; my own experience of doing mathematics is largely in accord. A little experience of teaching mathematics shows that this doesn't work for most people.
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#146That PDF is just a bunch of scanned images of the book. It's large and cumbersome in many readers. There is a much better PDF at Project Gutenberg [1]. The Gutenberg PDF is only 1.9 MB, compared to 12 MB for the scanned image PDF. The Gutenberg page for this book [2] also has a link to the LaTeX source for the PDF. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf [2] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
And here's the github hosted version because gutenberg seems to be freaking out right now: https://github.com/nadvornix/calculus-made-easy/blob/master/...
Weirdly, I can telnet to port 80 & GET / on the ipv6 address just fine.
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#147Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, a DjVu of that scan is about 1.4MB. On my phone I can't spot the difference. It's a shame that format never caught on. [1] http://any2djvu.djvu.org/djvu/170421/82.132.237.218/57676.17...
Warning: Attempting to open this file in ebook software stalled my decently-specced Android phone for about a minute until the software crashed.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, a DjVu of that scan is about 1.4MB. On my phone I can't spot the difference. It's a shame that format never caught on. [1] http://any2djvu.djvu.org/djvu/170421/82.132.237.218/57676.17...
Warning: Attempting to open this file in ebook software stalled my decently-specced Android phone for about a minute until the software crashed.
(I included the link in case anyone was interested in the quality and to prove I didn't just make up the number!)
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With an affiliate link nice
That was my guess too, but this one actually isn't. Amazon uses "?ref" for reference (innocuous), and "?tag" for affiliates. For quick reference, a.co and amzn.com are official shorteners and considered safe. amzn.to links however are third-party and often used to conceal affiliate links.