amathstudent

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by amathstudent 12y ago
The man it was made for tried it with his daughter: http://wadler.blogspot.com/2007/05/oh-no-alligators.html
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Images of Math(images-of-math.tumblr.com)
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Thank you!
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Perhaps you might enjoy an essay I wrote on this very topic, based on my experiences of learning math on my own for 5 years: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-3...
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by amathstudent 12y ago
It's hardly 'long-forgotten'... From Körner's book 'Fourier Analysis' (CUP, 1988): "[...] Kelvin ... designed and built a ... machine (the harmonic analyser) to perform the task 'which seemed to the A
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The Daily Math(thedailymath.tumblr.com)
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by amathstudent 12y ago
That was a well written article up until the links to sites behind Harvard University's paywall accessing service.
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Of course, the problem with things like this, Huff's book, everything by David Freedman, etc., is that people want to lie with statistics. To put it more prosaically, people have biases, prejudices, socially-created expectations, ult
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by amathstudent 12y ago
What a lovely comment!
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by amathstudent 12y ago
What choices did you make that make KaTeX faster than MathJax? (i.e. 'how is it done?')
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Here's something you might find interesting: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/698.htm... There have are also loads of replication projects, some currently ongoing, of both experimental and
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by amathstudent 12y ago
I think that's a very important point. Indeed, when you try to explain something simply to people, they often won't believe that it's really that simple, since there's all those symbols!
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by amathstudent 12y ago
As someone who knows it intimately, I would like to say that this kind of thing is endemic across the social science literature. What is frustrating is that only very few people seem to have the ability to understand why it is not sound.
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by amathstudent 12y ago
I tried. I was hoping for something more like: "a field is something you can add, subtract, multiply, & divide in" and less like: "a field is a set that is a commutative group with respect to two different operations (exc
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by amathstudent 12y ago
I'm curious - can anyone point me to an overview/exposition of this that is more hand-wavy than the book? I'm interested understanding the ideas in this work, because proofs as objects would be a major step forward, but I do
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by amathstudent 12y ago
That's fine, I like theoretical problems too.
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by amathstudent 12y ago
I was wondering: I find this topic interesting from a conceptual point of view, but I'm reluctant to learn more about it without having some concrete useful application as motivation. Can anyone give an example like that?
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Again a bit of a tangent, but I wrote an essay on learning math on your own based on my experiences: https://medium.com/@amathstudent/learning-math-on-your-own-3... - perhaps it will help you.
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Wow, thank you so much! Finally I'll be able to understand what Arnold is on about in his talks! :-)
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by amathstudent 12y ago
Thanks for that insightful explanation! I was wondering: could you explain in a nutshell what the KAM theorem is all about? I've heard about it many times, but I still have no idea what 'invariant tori' are...