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What other examples are there of using code to gain intuition behind the meaning of a mathematical operation or concept?

• data-ottawa 3y ago
  You might like this page which shows the equivalence between mathematical sum notation and for loops https://thomasward.com/sigmas-and-for-loops/ https://thomasward.com/sigmas-and-for-loops/ And this wikipedia page on iterated function notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function You'll also probably like Think Stats by Allen Downy which approaches teaching stats in a very similar framework (that you can code yourself) https://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ https://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/
  • dr_kiszonka 3y ago
    I really enjoy those "X for programmers" kind of materials. I wish there were more of them, especially on less popular topics.
  • relyks 3y ago
    Thanks, I'm going to take a look at these :)