[HN Gopher] Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project
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       Physics and Mathematics Self-Study Project
        
       Author : JoeDaDude
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-02-22 21:59 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.diegovera.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.diegovera.org)
        
       | mjfl wrote:
       | People love self-study materials, but do you really have the time
       | to absorb it? Yeah you could do this stuff every day after work,
       | but then you may not go to the gym, go on that date, etc... Not
       | enough time in the world to go through even a single learning
       | resource people promote.
        
         | susam wrote:
         | In 2021, a bunch of us, software engineers, did a small book
         | club to learn analytic number theory from a book written by
         | Apostol. We met for 40 minutes a day and read every line of the
         | book and every page of the book in great detail. It took us 120
         | days to complete reading the book and gain a good understanding
         | of analytic number theory along with the analytic proof of the
         | prime number theorem.
         | 
         | Meetup logs: https://susam.net/maze/meet/iant/log.html
         | 
         | A few blog posts documenting our journey:
         | https://susam.net/maze/tag/iant.html
         | 
         | I am currently doing a similar book club meetups for Mastering
         | Emacs. See https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ for
         | meeting schedule and other details.
        
       | trollerator23 wrote:
       | Holy shit that's ballsy. In 2 years? There are quite a few of
       | tough courses there. Respect.
        
       | melling wrote:
       | I've been studying MIT's OCW for Probability with a partner. It's
       | a great course.
       | 
       | https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-041sc-probabilistic-systems-an...
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       | We're 4 months in and on Lecture 15. These do take a while. I
       | feel like I'm not getting everything and will need another round.
       | I've been binge watching Stat 110 too:
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       | https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110
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       | "All probabilities are conditional"
        
       | Ralo wrote:
       | I would love to learn a much deeper level of mathematics but
       | where do people find the time for that? If it's not related to
       | work, or future work I couldn't find the large amount of time
       | required. And self study doesn't get recognized on resumes very
       | well. Perhaps spread out over the course of many many years on
       | your own personal time.
        
       | frognumber wrote:
       | Context would be nice here.
       | 
       | Who is this? Is this am unemployed autistic kid with nothing else
       | to do? A brilliantly gifted high school student? A software
       | engineer? A college student at a school without relevant courses?
       | An independently wealthy semi-retired rich kid?
       | 
       | Why? To be macho? As an alternative to college? To level up his
       | skills?
       | 
       | Quick web search answers a few of those, but not all of those.
       | 
       | If OP is the creator, look at the web site from the perspective
       | of a visitor, and give some answers.
       | 
       | As a footnote, there really ought to be a way to give college
       | credit for this sort of thing.
        
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