Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time?

Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by xyzal on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:47PM (#23491395)

Bartosz Milewski's lectures on category theory are great. Also, the accompanying book is well written (and free)!

lectures -> https://www.youtube.com/user/DrBartosz

book -> https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by iambrj on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:09PM (#23491641)

Another good category theory read is Pierce's Category Theory for Computer Scientists

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by spekcular on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:59PM (#23492189)

What practical applications does it present for programmers? I've looked at this a bit and it just seems like a regular category theory book.

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by Koshkin on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:10PM (#23492311)

Sometimes it is helpful to really understand what the hell you are actually doing when you write code (design patterns, data types and all). Otherwise, not much (unless you write Haskell, that is.)

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by wfdctrl on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:35PM (#23493507)

You don't get scared when you read stuff about Haskell because you know what most the fancy words mean

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of math do you study in your free time? by Koshkin on Thursday June 11, 2020 @10:17PM (#23495318)

On the other hand it would be easier to just avoid Haskell.

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