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Re:Math: Your Secret Weapon Against Wall Street and the NSA on Saturday March 01, 2014 @11:31AM (#7324822)

As much as I like this guy and his work, I'd downvote this if I could since the article contains almost no content that supports the title. It's just a blanent PR plug.

Re: Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:03AM (#7269157)

A good mathematical proof is like a poem, not a telephone directory.

Re:Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers? on Monday December 30, 2013 @03:22AM (#6983673)

She's read some of Dawkins and Gould and as parents we try our best to support all her interests but there's still a dearth of engaging books covering technical subjects at an intermediate level.

Bookstores these days only seem to have illustrated books for younger children and software books for "dummies".

Re:Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:21PM (#6982308)

Physics for Future Presidents is a great book - my wife gave her a copy last spring. I don't know if my daughter finished it but I know she said she found it interesting.

We have the the math books you mentioned but I haven't heard about the others before. Animals in Translation and Fifty-Nine Story Crisis look really good. Thanks for the reference!

Re:Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:12PM (#6982272)

Perhaps simplistic is the wrong word. To me the sample chapter[1] doesn't seem like it would be very engaging for my daughter since she's only perhiperally interested in things that lead to computing. But thanks for the recommendation and I'll take a closer look if I see it on the shelf.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4677.aspx

Re:Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:24PM (#6982016)

The sample chapter seems too simplistic so I'm not sure my daughter would find it interesting, but I'm curious - do you know any teenagers who liked it?

Ask HN: What are some good general technical books for teenagers?

Posted by lovemath on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a programmer by profession. I have a teenage daughter with a general interest in art and biology. She does well in math and science in school but isn't very enthusiastic about computers or technology.I'd like to find some good general books about technical subjects for her. Unfortunately the selection at local bookstores is rather limited and their books are either too simplistic, too...

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Re:Bitcoin solved a major technical problem, but not an economic one on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:05PM (#6981388)

Except in this case he's only quoting John Levine.

Re:Great books about mathematics on Friday December 27, 2013 @09:48PM (#6973647)

My wife gave me this great book for Christmas:

  Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
  by Edward Frenkel

It begins with the author's struggle to learn the math behind quantum physics in spite of cold-war era soviet educational obstacles and leads bit by bit into the Langlands program, drawing connections between group theory, number theory and harmonic analysis.

It's definitely my favorite book of 2013.

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465...