[HN Gopher] Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)
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       Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)
        
       Author : mpweiher
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2026-01-01 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | stmw wrote:
       | This is a good book. Also, any time this kind of book becomes
       | available (be it a 100 year old one or a new one), it is worth
       | looking into - great improvements in isnight and simplicity are
       | possible above the "baseline" of US math education today.
       | 
       | So for example, I posit that the engineers or scientists you
       | might admire from the 1950's didn't learn calculus or linear
       | algebra the way you did.
        
         | gpcz wrote:
         | Feynman learned calculus from the textbook "Calculus for the
         | Practical Man".
        
       | nutjob2 wrote:
       | Book PDF is here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph-
       | pdf/2284035/book_9...
        
       | NooneAtAll3 wrote:
       | what is it about?
       | 
       | how to distribute fighters so that your team defeats-in-detail
       | your opponents?
        
       | brennanpeterson wrote:
       | I also quite liked https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-
       | of-insight-in-...
       | 
       | Which is, I think, the successor and quite useful.
        
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