[HN Gopher] An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]
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       An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]
        
       Author : benstrumental
       Score  : 115 points
       Date   : 2022-02-11 15:09 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (venhance.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (venhance.github.io)
        
       | jimmyvalmer wrote:
       | Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded
       | I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my
       | way of thinking in half the time.
        
       | Cauchy2022 wrote:
       | Off-topic: Mobile version only loads the title page of the book
       | and leaves all remaining pages blank. I thought that was the
       | joke.
        
         | tartakovsky wrote:
         | 1. Not off topic. 2. Mobile version of what, it's a pdf. 3. I
         | can see the full text on my iPhone.
        
           | apollo1213 wrote:
           | You can read the PDF directly in browser:
           | https://docmadeeasy.com/v/484772290
        
             | Cauchy2022 wrote:
             | Yea on my Android app, pages such as Twitter and pdf cannot
             | be loaded and displayed properly, and I have to open
             | browser to see the actual content.
        
           | Cauchy2022 wrote:
           | The Material app on Android. Loading pdf in app and it turns
           | out that I can only see the first page followed by endless
           | blank pages
        
       | quirino wrote:
       | Evan Chen is a very valuable person in the Math Olympiad scene.
       | 
       | The Geometry book [1] he wrote in high school is required reading
       | for any serious competitor and I believe he is the main
       | responsible for some bringing some techniques into the olympic
       | meta, such as Barycentric Coordinates.
       | 
       | Also, his blog post [2] about writing is one of the best ones
       | I've ever read.
       | 
       | [1] https://web.evanchen.cc/geombook.html [2]
       | https://blog.evanchen.cc/2015/03/14/writing/
        
         | dezren39 wrote:
         | thank you for this comment this turned my day around
        
       | mgradowski wrote:
       | This book exposed me to proper math back in high school, I liked
       | it.
        
       | tgtefstg wrote:
        
       | dang wrote:
       | A bit of past discussion:
       | 
       |  _An Infinitely Large Napkin_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168936 - June 2019 (32
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467506 - Sept 2016 (3
       | comments)
        
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