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Wow. Nice. LaTeX typesetting for math just can't be beat. How can one get involved? Re-typesetting a math book sounds like a good way to learn something... >
by ivan_ah 15y ago
Wow. Nice. LaTeX typesetting for math just can't be beat.
How can one get involved?
Re-typesetting a math book sounds like a good way to learn something...
> The only down side ... steep learning curve since depend previous education
> That however is a fixable problem as well.
@hsmyers I think I have the fix. I am writing a book on basic math.
I have had good progress coming up with a //modern// introduction to high school
math, calculus and linear algebra, but I was worried whether I will be able
to teach the more advanced stuff -- now I can let Gauss take care of that ;)
A very funny / concise calculus book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
quote from the intro: "Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way."