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Re: Books I Recommend

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Post by fogetti »

jeff76 wrote: post #6

I don’t understand why people recommend books like “a programmers introduction to mathematics”. They’re advertised as books for “programmers” or people that know little math, yet they hide solutions from the reader. The reader that doesn’t know proper proofs or deep mathematics likely isn’t the same ones that know if their solutions are correct. Programmers like to write code with test cases. We don’t like to write c…

This! I completely agree! Also who cares if the solutions are online? If the professors want to use the book in classrooms then they should come up with their own exercises instead of basically stealing the book's questions.

I completely agree that any book with exercises without solutions is completely useless. I didn't even have access to professors or any teaching assistants even DURING my undergraduate years. So the assumption that you can discuss the questions with your professor doesn't even hold water.

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Post by tammer »

Tangent: are we witnessing the beginning of a new design trend? I feel like every app & website that’s popped up recently is designed in something like a “modern” version of an 8-bit/retro aesthetic. (Hence the terminal-purple & courier font here, but many more examples abound).

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Post by [deleted] »

codemusings wrote: post #29
kojackst wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I know about her is that she was a member of the Docker team and now works for Microsoft. She seems like a good professional and is popular among those who are into twitter, blogging and events, but I don't know if there's anything particular remarkable about her (if you are thinking about celebrities such as Ritchie, Linus, Stallman and others).

According to her Twitter that gig at Microsoft already ended.

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Post by jimmy1 »

jeff76 wrote: post #26
cttet wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mathematics is a very broad topic. Which part are you interested in?

Any books in: Introduction to proofs, Abstract algebra, Topology, Linear algebra

I liked the Better Explained books, particularly for Calculus, as it really explained the "why"

For Linear Algebra, "Linear Algebra Done Right" -- way better than my college lin alg course.

For "general mathematics", I like books that read almost like novels to really grasp the "why" of mathematics, so these are more to embellish your general understanding of "what is the point" type questions -- so things here like Euclid's Window come to mind, and "An Imaginary Tale: The story of square root minus one" will help explain complex numbers in more detail than you ever cared. Reading about the history of mathematics and the writings of some of the greats, like Rene Descartes, Lehonard Euler, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Issac Newton (the amazing thing is all these greats lived within a century of each other)

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Post by alexharrisnyc »

tammer wrote: post #32

Tangent: are we witnessing the beginning of a new design trend? I feel like every app & website that’s popped up recently is designed in something like a “modern” version of an 8-bit/retro aesthetic. (Hence the terminal-purple & courier font here, but many more examples abound).

I don't see any terminal-purple on this page.

Re: Books I Recommend

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Post by fogetti »

tugberkk wrote: post #11

I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations? It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.

For the same reason that you read hacker news I guess? You don't know who submitted the links and you still read them. So your point is moo (yes moo, not moot, like a cow's opinion). (It seems people really can be offended by anything these days, even by a book recommendation)

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Post by [deleted] »

099812477 wrote: post #2

Is there a HN Goodreads collection, or similar? Lots of lists like this (inc. my own: https://www.productgems.io/library/ ) but would love to see something centralised when in search of a new book to read (that's not a generic top 10).

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Re: Books I Recommend

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Post by ChristianGeek »

kranner wrote: post #9
099812477 wrote: post #2

Is there a HN Goodreads collection, or similar? Lots of lists like this (inc. my own: https://www.productgems.io/library/ ) but would love to see something centralised when in search of a new book to read (that's not a generic top 10).

Please test your site on mobile. The divs containing individual books are too narrow to read on my iPhone 6.

https://imgur.com/a/OSoxS9v

Re: Books I Recommend

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Post by tejinderss »

kojackst wrote: post #22
tugberkk wrote: post #11

I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations? It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.

What I know about her is that she was a member of the Docker team and now works for Microsoft. She seems like a good professional and is popular among those who are into twitter, blogging and events, but I don't know if there's anything particular remarkable about her (if you are thinking about celebrities such as Ritchie, Linus, Stallman and others).

She also joined GitHub recently and left in couple of weeks.
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