[HN Gopher] Tell HN: I am doing online reading sessions on analy...
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Tell HN: I am doing online reading sessions on analytic number
theory
Author : susam
Score : 95 points
Date : 2021-03-06 10:14 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (spxy.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (spxy.github.io)
| vector_spaces wrote:
| This is nice to see.
|
| I'm always surprised how the overwhelming majority of pure math
| people I meet online are solidly on the algebra or logic side of
| things. Don't get me wrong, algebra is cool, but where's all the
| love for analysis & PDEs?
| jgodbout wrote:
| It's still number theory though.
| [deleted]
| superbcarrot wrote:
| > but where's all the love for analysis & PDEs?
|
| That would be getting too close to stuff that's actually
| useful.
| [deleted]
| vmilner wrote:
| The UK Open University (distance learning) uses Apostol heavily
| in its MSc Maths course.
|
| I've put a post about this in their private forum, so you may
| pick up some interest from there.
| billfruit wrote:
| Do they still use Brennan for Geometry? Assuming they still do
| Geometry, but frankly it is a very informative book.
| vmilner wrote:
| I haven't encountered it in the MSc - but they may use it
| (Brannan) at undergrad level.
| guuggye wrote:
| Will these sessions be recorded? For the cases where someone is
| unable to attend or wants to refer back to a prior discussion?
| shashank wrote:
| From the website FAQs:
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| Will these sessions be recorded?
|
| Not at this time because we often refer to a few pages of the
| book via screen sharing during the meeting session. I don't
| know the copyright implications of recording such videos and
| sharing them with everyone online. If you have expertise in
| this area, I would like to know if my concern is genuine and if
| there is a way to resolve it.
| butterthebuddha wrote:
| Do you mind posting brief notes indicating how far the reading
| group has progressed after each meeting?
|
| Thanks for taking the initiative to host this.
| bflies wrote:
| What is an online reading session? Like a mother reading a
| children book to her kids?
| 867-5309 wrote:
| if the mother is _reading_ Number Theory at post-grad level and
| the child is any randomer on the internet, then yes, something
| like that
| tzs wrote:
| The book they are reading, Apostol's "Introduction to
| Analytic Number Theory", is for undergraduates.
|
| According to the preface, even that is overstating it:
| "Actually, a great deal of the book requires no calculus at
| all and could profitably be studied by sophisticated high
| school students".
|
| Nevertheless, when I picked up a copy near the start of my
| freshman year at Caltech and had a go at it, it kicked my
| ass.
| hardlianotion wrote:
| Yes - looking at the reading requirements of textbooks is
| often cause for wry amusement.
| bawolff wrote:
| > According to the preface, even that is overstating it:
| "Actually, a great deal of the book requires no calculus at
| all and could profitably be studied by sophisticated high
| school students".
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| I'm pretty sure the harder the math book the more they
| claim a sophisticated high school student could study it.
| RiderOfGiraffes wrote:
| It's where people get together to have a discussion around a
| set piece of reading. In this case the reading is of a
| textbook, and the discussion is intended to help everyone
| understand the material.
| DubaiMath wrote:
| Seriously stop all your upvoting bots to get yourself to the
| front page on many of your posts. You are a shit programmer, a
| waste of space and create poor quality misleading content
| testing_1_2_3_4 wrote:
| Man, I'd really like to join this, but not gonna stay up til 2am
| for it...
| susam wrote:
| There are some meetings scheduled at 18:00 UTC (10:00 PST) too.
| mvh wrote:
| PSA: we often hold similar events at bstn.cc, in CS and math.
| mebassett wrote:
| I think this is brilliant. Anyone wanna do one on Class Field
| Theory following Childress?
| hardlianotion wrote:
| I admire your optimism!
| ky3 wrote:
| I'm game. Email's in the profile. Aside from HN, do you have
| other plans on gathering up the numbers?
| spidersouris wrote:
| Not a mathematics whizz at all so I probably won't understand
| anything, but I love the concept! I know some people also do
| online reading sessions on Twitch, but I feel like it's still
| quite a niche environment. I wish it'd expand more; I see a lot
| of potential in it.
| pfortuny wrote:
| Would be good to know who you are.
| susam wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback. I realize it is important to
| introduce myself when sending out an invitation to join a book
| club like this, so I have added an FAQ section at
| https://spxy.github.io/bc/#faq where I introduce myself. I took
| the liberty to be elaborate there because I am not well known
| outside of a few very small communities.
|
| By the way, I briefly talked about this yesterday at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355752 where I mentioned
| how a small tech support channel evolved into a computer
| science and mathematics literature club. The parent story of
| that thread inspired me to make this post today.
|
| To all supporters on HN, thank you for the bringing this post
| to the front page. I honestly did not expect this to come to
| the front page. At most, I expected a few people to notice it
| at /newest and join the book club. However, since I created
| this post, about 25 new members have joined which is great!
| pfortuny wrote:
| Wow! That is a lot of info. Thanks for taking the time!
| wjnc wrote:
| Thank you. The contents are far out of my depth but there is
| a general optimism that comes through while reading on your
| site and thinking of what your are bringing to the world. I
| hope that this trend of microcosms to find likewise
| intellectually interested individuals continues!
|
| Recently I spoke to an about 80 year old scholar of Hegel and
| he still hosts book clubs for former students to his (and I
| presume his students ;) delight. Suppose that would be the
| way of the future. A club for any of your delights.
| RiderOfGiraffes wrote:
| Following a couple of links gives this:
|
| https://twitter.com/susam
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