Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by nolite on Friday December 25, 2015 @07:21PM
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After reading through the first section and exercises, and having zero interest in game theory, I must say this is really well done. All mathematical subjects should aim towards teaching clearly step by step like this, with a ton of well formed and worked out excercoses, instead of just drowning the reading in notation.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by JohnHammersley on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:50PM
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My whole PDF library is exactly this.
As a sidenote, isn't this pretty much why the PDF remains so popular as a format, at least in science - you get a typeset copy with no worry you'll ever lose access or not be able to read it... you just need that spare hour or two... :)
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by BenderV on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:29PM
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Yesterday, this occurred to me. I quickly forget which pdf I have downloaded.
I was searching for an application who is basically a to do list for pdf (a "pocket" for pdf).
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by gsteinb88 on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:49PM
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Mendeley or Zotero's tagging might work well for this. Both are more commonly used for organizing bibliographies in science, but should work here as well.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by rch on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:05PM
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I store PDFs in Google Drive by quarter (e.g. ~/content/2015Q4/), and generally try to add a few relevant terms in the title. The only thing that bothers me is that I have to go through and specifically mark the files as available offline.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by mindcrime on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:49PM
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That actually sounds like a really good idea. Right now the only thing I for this is keeping a folder on my desktop titled "Reading Queue", and I drop symlinks in there to docs that I want to read sooner than later.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by krick on Saturday December 26, 2015 @12:34AM
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Uh, I don't know. This font is, well, artsy, but I find it honestly hard to read. It's just too unusual. I'm not a fan of some other decorations here as well (like these blurry raster pencils, for instance).
As for your question, usual answer would be LaTeX + (maybe) some specific plugins (like TikZ for diagrams, or tufte-latex for specific layout, or whatever), but due to some irregularities here I suspect that this particular book is actually hand-made in something like Microsoft Office. I well might be wrong, I'm not sure, it just seems like that.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises
by lightonphiri on Sunday December 27, 2015 @06:44AM
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It certainly does look like it was made by Microsoft Office, however, pdfinfo says Producer: PDF Annotator 5.0.0.511 [Debenu Quick PDF Library 11.15 (www.debenu.com)]
As a sidenote, isn't this pretty much why the PDF remains so popular as a format, at least in science - you get a typeset copy with no worry you'll ever lose access or not be able to read it... you just need that spare hour or two... :)
Does anyone have an application like that?
Any suggestions on what authoring tool(s) to use to write a book like this that has lots of matrices, diagrams, and notation?
As for your question, usual answer would be LaTeX + (maybe) some specific plugins (like TikZ for diagrams, or tufte-latex for specific layout, or whatever), but due to some irregularities here I suspect that this particular book is actually hand-made in something like Microsoft Office. I well might be wrong, I'm not sure, it just seems like that.