Popular Post darkmass Posted January 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2020 On 1/9/2020 at 8:43 AM, Jud said: Anyone have additional helpful resources for auto-didacts, particularly (but not exclusively) free and web- or app-based? Jud, the link in your OP is a worthwhile one; however, in my view the contents only brush up against the region of Pure Mathematics. True, within the "ADVANCED MATHEMATICS" subheading it makes an approach (my coursework in Hilbert Spaces was among the Pure Mathematics courses in my educational background), but the links provided under Advanced Mathematics are to a significant degree either broken...or really much more applicable to Applied Mathematics. So, some links. (They may or may not be considered "helpful resources")... 1) https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/02/24/why-do-we-pay-mathematicians/ 2) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Pure_mathematics And, well, a little bit different twist on things--if not entirely related to Pure Mathematics. Example: "A mathematician, a physicist, an engineer went again to the races and laid their money down. Commiserating in the bar after the race, the engineer says, 'I don't understand why I lost all my money. I measured all the horses and calculated their strength and mechanical advantage and figured out how fast they could run...' The physicist interrupted him: '...but you didn't take individual variations into account. I did a statistical analysis of their previous performances and bet on the horses with the highest probability of winning...' '...so if you're so hot why are you broke?' asked the engineer. But before the argument can grow, the mathematician takes out his pipe and they get a glimpse of his well-fattened wallet. Obviously here was a man who knows something about horses. They both demanded to know his secret. 'Well,' he says, 'first I assumed all the horses were identical and spherical...'" Okay, 3) http://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html Jud and Solstice380 1 1 Link to comment
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