Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)!
lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz
Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?
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#12I am reading "The Art of Statistics" by David Spiegelhalter.
I just finished that. Great book!
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#13I've always been partial to Galois theory.
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#14There is loads of great maths stuff on YouTube. For some reason this is my favourite channel: black pen red pen. The author solves unusual algebra or calculus problems. I find it quite relaxing!
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#15I'm a big fan of Schelling's ideas on game theory, and focal points in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#The_Strategy_...
I'd love any further suggestions on complex/multipolar/iterated game theory.
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#16Been going through Conway's (and Conway related) books since his unfortunate passing. His biography by Siobhan Roberts was a great starting point to ease into it (lots of direct quotes from Conway, which makes it a very easy read that still touches on the important concepts in his work, in his own words; also highly recommend all the Numberphile videos featuring him for that)- then:
Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays is really fun to thumb through.
The Book of Numbers is fantastic and something I would gift to any mathematically curious, somewhat independent, child.
Knuth's Surreal Numbers is also a great read.
Got On Numbers and Games coming in the mail, and am trying to track down a reasonably priced copy of The Symmetries of Things.
I'm tempted to get the Atlas for my collection, but I don't think I'd actually get much from reading it (:
In non-Conway recommendations, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a huge brick of a volume, but is a very complete math encyclopedia that I love to keep on my desk and thumb through when I feel distracted. You always end up learning something new.
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#17Some math topics I like to read about / play with:
- Measure theory / lebesque/daniell integration / stochastic calculus -- super useful but very beautiful. I have a background in mathematical finance.
- Combinatorial topology -- Simplicial complexes, polytopes. A more finite/computational flavor of algebraic topology.
- Dynamical systems: Highly interdisciplinary. Brings together physics, fractals, calculus, and computer simulations.
- Multilinear Algebra -- tensors, grassman algebras.
- History of Mathematics -- love reading about the development of mathematics throughout the centuries.
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#18I'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.
Great book, too bad it's got such an offensive title. The book could be used more widely without it.
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#19I'm currently looking at propagator networks https://github.com/ekmett/propagators
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#20Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)! lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz book -> https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
Another good category theory read is Pierce's Category Theory for Computer Scientists