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I need to brush up on math for my current project: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview and found the book seri
by WillAdams 2y ago
I need to brush up on math for my current project:
https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview
and found the book series:
- _Make:Geometry_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make
- _Make:Trigonometry_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make
- _Make:Calculus_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make
a helpful review and extension of my slipshod math education (remember how Feynman once critiqued some math books, esp. calling out one for using made-up associations of colors and star temperatures? guess which one the school system I attended was using...).
Next step is I need to work with conic sections and after that Bézier curves/surfaces --- could you suggest texts on those subjects?
- dalton01 2y agoThese look great, thanks for sharing :)
- WillAdams 2y agoYou're welcome! Hopefully someone can make recommendations for books (or other references) which address the next two aspects of math I'll need, conic sections and Bézier curves/surfaces. I have found: - _Practical Conic Sections_ by J.W. Downs - https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw and I'm reading through _METAFONT: The Program_ but if someone could provide a list of math texts which build from the Make: <foo> series (the coverage of conic sections in them was sparser than I was hoping for) I'd be glad of it. Links to helpful Github repositories would be welcome as well (for reviewing once I've digested the books).