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Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by trentmb on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:23PM (#10792056)
Anyone else download it with the intention to work through it but never actually do it?
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by nolite on Friday December 25, 2015 @07:21PM (#10792796)
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 (#10792739)
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 (#10792919)
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).

Does anyone have an application like that?

Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by gsteinb88 on Friday December 25, 2015 @08:49PM (#10792952)
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 (#10792991)
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 (#10792953)
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 farhanhubble on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:04AM (#10800556)
I upload to slack or evernote under different categories.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by sawwit on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:31PM (#10792268)
Well, there are at least 40, if not 500 years ahead of me.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by slmyers on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:34PM (#10792421)
That's like every text I own... FeelsBadMan
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by reviseddamage on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:10PM (#10792212)
let you know in a few months.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by lovelearning on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:06PM (#10792995)
That's a beautifully typeset book.

Any suggestions on what authoring tool(s) to use to write a book like this that has lots of matrices, diagrams, and notation?

Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by krick on Saturday December 26, 2015 @12:34AM (#10793391)
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 (#10797161)
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)]
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by lovelearning on Saturday December 26, 2015 @02:12AM (#10793543)
Thank you for those TikZ and tufte-latex tips! I should investigate LaTeX in depth.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by glifchits on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:14PM (#10793011)
LaTeX
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by strategy on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:43PM (#10792300)
I love the use of color in this textbook to make payoffs for each player identifiable. I am looking forward to reading this in detail.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by hiepph on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:30PM (#10792082)
Wow, this would make my CS learning goes easier.
Re:Game Theory: An open-access textbook with solved exercises by ultimatejman on Friday December 25, 2015 @07:29PM (#10792809)
Nice find