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The book assumes you are already a programmer, then in most chapters it begins with a comparison of programming definitions vs math definitions, sometimes will
by hackermailman 7y ago
The book assumes you are already a programmer, then in most chapters it begins with a comparison of programming definitions vs math definitions, sometimes will model mathematics in java code, but for most of the chapters the programming content and examples disappear and it just becomes a math text, which for me was fine.
The title should have probably been changed to something like 'A Programmer's Guide to Calculus and Linear Algebra' to avoid confusion. I hope there is a second version, where an editor mercilessly omits a lot of the decorative medium-esque blog text in some of the intros, and cleans up the jacket description or the title to prevent more bad reviews on Amazon and the like ("I thought this would teach me how to pass interviews! zero stars!").
The best part of this book is the 'culture of mathematics', where he is handing you grad school advice like how you should be reading a math text by writing your own examples whenever a definition is dropped in the book.