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Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

mrkgnao wrote: post #13

Excellent work! I've been trying to get my mother (she's a physics teacher) to learn linear algebra properly for a long time. Artin didn't work (ha), Khan Academy moved too slow/bored her, but she seems interested in this. It's important to appreciate how useful it might be to make math "tangible". Sure, someone who can define a manifold by saying "oh, put charts on it, locally diffeo blah blah" probably has a good s…

Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter is another one I have been enjoying.

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by happy-go-lucky »

hardcore96 wrote: post #25
happy-go-lucky wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the same thing. A set of problems to test the reader's understanding and a scratch area like a Jupyter notebook would improve the interactivity.

I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively. Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?

Embedding Jupyter Widgets in Other Contexts than the Notebook: http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html

Temporary notebook service: https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb

Jupyter javascript plugin for static sites: https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe

Also, you may want to consider trinket: https://trinket.io/

http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-a...

For example, this book uses trinket for interactive Python: https://books.trinket.io/pfe/index.html

I've just tried running:

    import numpy as np
    from scipy import linalg
    A = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])
    print(linalg.det(A))
at https://trinket.io/features/python3 and it worked like a charm :)

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by ludicast »

mrkgnao wrote: post #21
teperpencoli wrote: post #11

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These are the best linear algebra videos I've ever seen. The creator is now working on an introductory calculus series. He's already released the first few episodes to patrons.

Wasn't he hired by Khan Academy recently? It's great if that helps a wider audience to benefit from his work.

I think it's the reverse. He did all or most of their multivariable calc series, and maybe some other things for them.

And then started to do his own thing a little more.

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by amelius »

ErikBjare wrote: post #27

I'm a MSc in CS student at the university where the authors (whom I've met a few times) teach. If you have any questions you think I'd know the answer to, ask away!

Perhaps you can let them know their work is being discussed on HN :)

Re: Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)

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Post by hardcore96 »

happy-go-lucky wrote: post #33
hardcore96 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've recently worked on http://dspillustrations.com for a pictorial description of signal processing concepts. In the online version, it's not fully interactive, just animations. But after downloading, you can certainly change formulas and run it interactively. Would be interested how one would manage to include a jupyter scratchpad in the online version?

Embedding Jupyter Widgets in Other Contexts than the Notebook: http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html Temporary notebook service: https://github.com/jupyter/tmpnb Jupyter javascript plugin for static sites: https://github.com/oreillymedia/thebe Also, you may want to consider trinket: https://trinket.io/ http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/984396/Embed-interactive-Python-a... For example, this book uses trin…

Thanks for these great references! I will definitely have a look at them and see if I can use them for my purposes.
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