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Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

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Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

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post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sent a message using the contact form. Thanks for mentioning this.

Just use torrent! It's easy, and potentially free!

Distributing new versions is an issue though, as there is no way to tell anyone who is currently seeding the old torrent. But it's not a terrible idea if it turns out there is really a lot of bandwidth (I don't expect that), then I could use my server for seeding at least.

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#132
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how long that can last before abuse kills the system. Some quotes from their page about KBFS [0]: "The 250GB free accounts will stay free" "we'll never run an ad-supported business" "we're not trying to make money" [0] https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

How is Keybase funded anyway? They say they’re hiring, so money is coming from somewhere.

Their Series A raised $10.8M back in 2015: https://keybase.io/blog/2015-07-15/keybase-raises-series-a

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#133

Wow, I have to say I feel somewhat bad for the author who spent so much time (months?) compiling this semi-comprehensive reference work. There's so much information, but at the same time, so little useful information to any particular reader. It's so broad as to be a hindrance to using it in any sort of daily reference. Who would use this? Wouldn't you probably resort to a reference more specific to your field? Is th…

Well, I find it extremely useful. This is my new go-to item when someone asks me, "What would you bring with you if you could go back in time to the year 1600?"

This comment got me thinking: if that were to happen unexpectedly, how would you

1) determine when and where you were, and

2) convince the locals who probably don't speak your language or look like you not to kill or imprison you?

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#134
post #37

I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned: https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html He has the same version (v2.10) there and mentions that, "The Web version does not include the distribution functions due to file size restrictions. Email me if you would like a copy of these." That explains why pages 213-330 are missing. Someone should offer to upload the full copy to keybase.pub (or s…

For some reason v2.10 incorrectly shows e^1pi instead of e^ipi in the Euler equation. v2.6 is correct.

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#136
post #134
post #37

I think the author's page (Alex Spartalis) deserves to be mentioned: https://www.alexspartalis.com/cheat-sheet.html He has the same version (v2.10) there and mentions that, "The Web version does not include the distribution functions due to file size restrictions. Email me if you would like a copy of these." That explains why pages 213-330 are missing. Someone should offer to upload the full copy to keybase.pub (or s…

For some reason v2.10 incorrectly shows e^1pi instead of e^ipi in the Euler equation. v2.6 is correct.

I believe that's an iota (ι) not a 1.

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#137
post #72

I really didn't want to be that guy, and props for the author for such comprehensive reference work, but god, what an appalling typography. Bad tables with too many lines bitmap formulas with misadjusted size, poor spacing, ugly font... Almost everything that could be wrong is wrong.

I felt the same. Also feel that he put too much stuff in, as if wanting to make it run for as many pages as possible.

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

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OK, so, I also hate to be "that guy", but, despite the admirable effort put into creating this by the author, I am sad to say I don't see why some people are excited about this... Because unfortunately after just looking at a few pages, I saw lots and lots of error and misleading or plain confusing statements, basically on every single page I looked at closer, which makes me distrust it. Granted, these vary in their severity, but still...

Examples:

- p. 50, definition of a complex vector space, says " A complex vector space consists of the same set of axioms as the real case, but elements within the vector space are complex.". The vector space does not "consist" of the axiom, it adheres to them. And it makes no sense to say that the "elements" (vectors) are "complex". Rather, that scalars are allowed to be complex, not just real.

- p. 50: definition of a subspace is a mess. To pick just one obvious problem with it: What even are "axioms (a) and (b)"? Perhaps the three unlabeled "axioms" at the top of the page are meant (being closed under addition, additive inverses, and scalar multiplication)? But certainly the third one (axion "(c)"?) needs to be verified, too (whereas the second, about additive inverses, is redundant).

- p. 51 the examples at the top of the page end with mentioning C[a,b], the set of all continuous functions on an interval [a,b]. But then it claims that this is actually not an example, because "it has infinite dimensions". But really this is a perfectly fine vector space (also, we haven't even defined what a "dimension" is yet)

- p. 51, definition of linear independence says "c_1=c_2=c_n=0" which is missing a "=..." before the "=c_n"

- p. 52 the "general vector" given as a column vector doesn't make sense in a general vector space

- p. 53: "Matricis"

- p. 56 "Laprange's theorem" should be "Lagrange's theorem"

- p. 126: "EXPONETIAL"

- p. 167: "Matricies", "Prinicples", "opertaions",

- p. 168: "Determinate"; the formulas for 2x2 and 3x3 matrices implicitly assume a labeling of the entries which is never given, rendering this semi-useless

- one section is titled "MISELANIOUS"

And on page 38, the fields of real and complex numbers, R and C, are introduced as being written with a "blackboard" font (\mathbb), while on page 51 this is not followed (instead, we get \mathcal{R} and plain C). Why even introduce these conventions if they are then not followed?

Sure, many of these are minor and perhaps even "obvious" mistakes. But if you know the matter well enough to spot all of these, maybe you don't need this cheat sheet? Also, as a mathematician myself, my experience is that the number of spelling mistakes in a research paper (or in anything written and submitted by students) is a good first proxy for the quality of the text: if you can't be bothered to even run a spell checker on your text, should I really trust you to have verified all your computations and logical deductions carefully? (And no, I don't apply this to, say, posts here on HackerNews: I hate it when people shoot down a comment, or a twitter post, or whatever, just because it contains typo. But writing a book is a bit of a different affair, isn't it?).

Hence my point that I wouldn't want to suggest this to anybody as a reference. :-(

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#139
post #72

I really didn't want to be that guy, and props for the author for such comprehensive reference work, but god, what an appalling typography. Bad tables with too many lines bitmap formulas with misadjusted size, poor spacing, ugly font... Almost everything that could be wrong is wrong.

This. Having an ~30 page TOC and no hyperlinks to the chapters/section irritates me to no end.

Re: Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]

#140

It's awesome. Though I prefer my Bronshtein :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronshtein_and_Semendyayev

Interesting - I've had the German version from my university days (every ME student had one) and it's spelled "Bronstein". The English spelling makes me a little dizzy.
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