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“Street fighting mathematics” is a fantastic textbook. https://books.google.com/books/about/Street_Fighting_Mathematics.html?id=qrdNEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_des

• Jtsummers 3y ago
  More useful links than Google Books for it: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-098-street-fighting-mathemati... - MIT Open Courseware version of the course (some links don't work) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262514293/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262514293/ - MIT Press link for the book, includes Open Access link (working, unlike one of the OCW links) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5339/Street-Fighting-MathematicsThe-Art-of-Educated https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5339/Street-Fighti... - Open Access link from MIT Press
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  • Jtsummers 3y ago
    You didn't call him an "anti-vax conspiracy nutso" in the first comment, you said he was "pretty insane based on his tweets" with no other context (though I, and probably others, found the anti-vax stuff based on looking it up). (I didn't downvote/flag it, but I'm not vouching/upvoting it either, this comment is much better than your first.) As to turning a dissertation into a book, it's sufficiently common that universities like Georgetown have content like this on their university library site referencing other major universities: https://library.georgetown.edu/scholarly-communication/etds-publishing https://library.georgetown.edu/scholarly-communication/etds-...