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Ask HN: Who hires mathematicians? | Hacker News
I know that machine learning is pretty math heavy, and I have taken a look at some of the mathematics involved and some programming firms also don'... (2017)
Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra: A Few Connections Worth Exploring
by Erin Baldinger, University of Minnesota; Shawn Broderick, Keene State College; Eileen Murray, Montclair State University; Nick Wasserman, Columb... (2015)
Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics. (2017)
Essentials of Machine Learning Algorithms (with Python and R Codes)
this article displays the list of machine learning algorithms such as linear, logistic regression, kmeans, decision trees along with Python R code.... (2017)
Ask HN: Best way to get started with AI? (machine learning)
YC, Hacker News, 2017 discussion board: "I'm a intermediate-level programmer, and would like to dip my toes in AI, starting with the simple st... (2017)
Essence of linear algebra - YouTube
Full Playlist: Essence of linear algebra, 3Blue1Brown 15 videos 1,751,465 views (2017)
The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape
By Ryota Matsuura, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College and North American Director of Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Educatio... (2015)
Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles
Medieval Islamic artisans developed a process for creating elaborate, nonrepeating patterns now associated with Penrose tiles. (2013)
10 Lessons of an MIT Education
MIT, From the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT April 1997 (2017)
How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University - Part 3 | QuantStart
2016, In the first and second articles in the series we looked at the courses that are taken in the first half of a four-year undergraduate mathem... (2017)
To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine
To determine the nature of infinity, mathematicians face a choice between two new logical axioms. What they decide could help shape the future of m... (2017)
Danish numbers
Danish has a strange and convoluted number system, involving two remnats of older numbers: numbers from 50 on are based on 20, not 10 and uses now ... (2017)
Free Online Mathematics Textbooks
Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics; "The writing of textbooks and making them freely available on the web is an idea whose time... (2017)
A View of Mathematics
by Alain CONNES, "Mathematics is the backbone of modern science and a remarkably efficient source of new concepts and tools to understand the “real... (2017)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners
A description of ECC without using advanced math. it's not easy to find an introduction to elliptic curve cryptography that doesn't assume an adva... (2017)
‘Weapons of Math Destruction’: A Data Scientist’s Warning About Impacts of Big Data - EdSurge News
“These days algorithms have taken on an almost godlike power—they’re up in the (data) clouds, watching everything, passing judgment and leaving us ... (2017)
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
Quanta Magazine In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge | Quanta Magazine All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Int... (2017)
Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5+-year-old child
mathoverflow: "Background: My daughter is 6 years old now, once I wanted to think on some math (about some Young diagrams), but she wanted to play ... (2017)
Essay: "A Mathematician’s Lament" (pdf) - by Paul Lockhart
Sadly, our present system of mathematics education is precisely this kind of nightmare. In fact, if I had to design a mechanism ... (2017)
5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus
The Atlantic, "Why playing with algebraic and calculus concepts—rather than doing arithmetic drills—may be a better way to introduce children to math" (2017)
Learning the Language of Mathematics
pdf paper from Robert E. Jamison, Clemson University. " This paper is about the use of language as a tool for teaching mathematical concepts. In it... (2017)
Math textbooks (discussion)
Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment? (2017)
How to read Mathematics
How to read math: This article is part of my new book Rediscovering Mathematics: Mathematics has a reading protocol all its own, and just as we le... (2017)
7.3 Billion People, One Building — Wait But Why
This isn't gonna be pleasant for anyone. How big a building would you need to fit them all in it? It’s a question that’s tantalized almost no o... (2024)
So You Want to Study Mathematics — Susan Rigetti
Back in 2016, I typed up a little guide to studying physics called “So You Want to Learn Physics.” It ended up being pretty popular, so I started w... (2022)
Justice from mutant algorithms
Why the law should treat algorithms like murderous Greek statues Future magic circle trainee William Holmes considers whether 'mutant algorithm... (2020)
The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
Over a decade ago, I was sitting in a college math physics course and my professor spelt out an idea that kind of blew my mind. This mathematica... (2020)
The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus
Epidemiologists are using complex models to help policymakers get ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the leap from equations to decisions is a lon... (2020)
Math books - for adventurous self-learners | Neil Sainsbury
Mathematics for the adventurous self-learner For over six years now, I've been studying mathematics on my own in my spare time - working my way ... (2020)
The Amazing Math Inside the Rubik’s Cube - Popular Mechanics
How to Solve a Rubiks Cube - Rubik's Cube Algorithms. Want to solve a Rubik's Cube? Then you have to know the numbers. Here's the amazing math... (2019)
Essence of linear algebra preview
This introduces the "Essence of linear algebra" series, aimed at animating the geometric intuitions underlying many of the topics taught in a stand... (2017)
Tossing Pennies on the Roof
Bill Gates and Washington State Teacher of the Year Camille Jones shars an engineering lesson (2017)
What is an algorithm and why should you care? | Khan Academy
Khan Academy | Algorithms | Computer Science | "Computer Science on Khan Academy: Learn select topics from computer science - algorithms (how we ... (2017)
The Map of Mathematics
Published on Feb 1, 2017 The entire field of mathematics summarised in a single map! This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relat... (2017)
Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
Democracy might be mathematically impossible – here’s why. ▀▀▀ Massive thanks to Prof. Eric Maskin for helping with the script. Thanks to Chr... (2024)
TED - A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia | Terry Moore
What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -... (2023)
Calculus Big Picture: Derivatives - by Professor Strang, MIT
Calculus finds the relationship between the distance traveled and the speed - easy for constant speed, not so easy for changing speed. Professor St... (2023)
Big Picture of Calculus - introduction to differential and integral calculus by Glibert Strang
Big Picture of CalculusInstructor: Gilbert Strang. Highlights of calculus. Calculus is about change. One function tells how quickly another fu... (2023)
The trickiest problem in statistics (and how it relates to the probability of the multiverse)
For decades, the Sleeping Beauty Problem has divided people between two answers. 160,439 People Agree With Me, 64,831 Disagree… (2023)
Is Infinity Real?
To check out the physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and to support this channel, go to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/ and cr... (2021)
Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer ... (2020)
Euclid as the father of geometry | Introduction to Euclidean geometry | Khan Academy
We don't normally delve too far into history when talking about math, but sometimes it's important to have perspective about how some of our math c... (2020)
But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.
3Blue1Brown 2.9M subscribers An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform... (2020)
What is a function? | Functions and their graphs | Algebra II | Khan Academy
Functions assign a single output for each of their inputs. In this video, we see examples of various kinds of functions. Created by Sal Khan... (2020)
Why You Shouldn't Go to Harvard | Malcolm Gladwell Highlights | Google Zeitgeist
Malcolm Gladwell explains why you'd be better off going to a worse school (and why you should hire people at the top of their class, regardless of ... (2020)
Finding probability example | Probability and Statistics | Khan Academy
In order to find the probability of picking a yellow marble from a bag, we have to first determine the number of possible outcomes and how then man... (2019)
What is a Fourier Series? (Explained by drawing circles) - Smarter Every Day 205
Get a free crate for a kid you love (Awesome Chrsitmas gifts) at: https://www.kiwico.com/smarter Click here if you're interested in subscribing: ht... (2019)
How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? - TEDed
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-ways-are-there-to-prove-the-pythago... (2019)
“The Beauty of Calculus,” a Lecture by Steven Strogatz
YaleUniversity Published on May 1, 2019 Calculus is one of the most imaginative and consequential triumphs of human creativity. In this talk, f... (2019)
Overview of differential equations | Chapter 1
How do you study what cannot be solved? Home page: https://3blue1brown.com/ Special thanks to these supporters: http://3b1b.co/de1thanks Need to br... (2019)
what is a partial differential equation? | Overview of differential equations, chapter 2
The heat equation, as an introductory PDE. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Thanks to these supporters: http://3b1b.co/de2thanks Infinite pow... (2019)
What Is Statistics: Crash Course Statistics #1 - CrashCourse
Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! In this series we're going to take a look at the important role statistics play in our everyday lives, beca... (2019)
Why you should love statistics | TEDx - Alan Smith
Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers... (2019)
Calculus at a Fifth Grade Level
The foreign concepts of calculus often make it hard to jump right into learning it. If you ever wanted to dive into the world of mathematics - or i... (2018)
Introduction to Calculus (1 of 2: Seeing the big picture)
Introduction to Calculus (1 of 2: Seeing the big picture) by Eddie Woo Published on Jun 26, 2015 (300,000+ views) (2018)
Why is Trigonometry so important?
Why is Trigonometry so important? by Eddie Woo Published on Mar 6, 2015 (100,000+ views) (2018)
Understand Calculus in 10 Minutes
TabletClass Math - learn the basics of calculus quickly. This video is designed to introduce calculus concepts for all math students... (2018)
Essence of calculus, chapter 1
I want you to feel that you could have invented calculus for yourself, and in this first video of the series, we see how unraveling the nuances of ... (2018)
What they won't teach you in calculus
A visual for derivatives which generalizes more nicely to topics beyond calculus. Problem-driven learning by Brilliant... (2018)
Intro to Linear Regression | Marginal Revolution University
Marginal Revolution University Published on Oct 17, 2017 "Do good looking professors score higher on course evaluations? Let’s ask the data! Jo... (2018)
A Mind For Numbers, by Barbara Oakley, PhD
The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill... (2025)
Calculus Made Easy - by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910)
Calculus Made Easy is a book on calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the... (2021)
Free Linear Algebra textbook
Linear Algebra is a text for a first US undergraduate Linear Algebra course. You can use it as a main text, as a supplement, or for independe... (2019)
Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science - University of Illinois CS
The latest version is 1.3. See bottom for pointers to old versions. You can download the whole book as a single pdf file, or select from the ind... (2019)
Algorithms - textbook by Jeff Erickson
This web page contains a free electronic version of my (soon to be) self-published textbook Algorithms, along with other lecture notes I have writt... (2019)
Textbook | Calculus Online Textbook | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare
Calculus Textbook. Free. Online. First published in 1991 by Wellesley-Cambridge Press, this updated 3rd edition of the book is a useful resource... (2025)
Calculus 1 - Outlier - Earn college credits online
Take the world’s best online college Calculus course from Outlier. Learn from top educators and earn college credits you can transfer to any school... (2020)
Photomath - Scan. Solve. Learn.
Photomath is the #1 app for math learning; it can read and solve problems ranging from arithmetic to calculus instantly by using the camera on your... (2020)
Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world’s knowledge computable
Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutr... (2019)
Mathigon: The Math Textbook of the Future
Discover Mathigon, a groundbreaking new education platform that adapts to every individual student. Mathematics has never been so colourful. (2019)
Computational Linear Algebra - New fast.ai course
I am thrilled to release fast.ai’s newest free course, Computational Linear Algebra, including an online textbook and a series of videos, and cover... (2019)
Differential Equations Notes
A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers - by Dr. R. L. Herman (2018)
Khan Academy - 7th grade MATH
Learn seventh grade math for free—proportions, algebra basics, arithmetic with negative numbers, probability, circles, and more. Full curriculum of... (2018)
Grade 7 Toolkit -- Florida K10 Standards
You can use the links below to find all of the information and resources available for the selected grade(s) (2018)