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einpoklumyesterday at 2:26 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm not such a fan of trying to cram everything-mathematically-relevant into a single huge book (and it is huge - 1048 pages).

Anyway, this reminds me of a rather different initiative in the same vein: The building of Mathematical principles based on the expediences of Computer Science: CONCRETE MATHEMATICS

by Donald Knuth, Ronald Graham and Oren Patashnik.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/gkp.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics

available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/download/concrete-mathematics/Concrete%2...


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generationPyesterday at 3:01 PM

Graham/Knuth/Patashnik is a lot less "basic discrete maths you're most likely to need" and a lot more "number sequences we've known and loved". Almost more useful for physicists due to the amount of summation fu you'll learn there.

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