Arithmetic for the practical man

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• setq · May 15, 2017 · Recommends

  Completely agree. I've taken the liberty of taking a quick snap of a random page in "Arithmetic for the Practical Man" to include below for those poor people poisoned by modern textbooks: http://i.imgur.com/Bg9OiiK.jpg (926KiB) I see horrible modern behemoths of over a 1000 pages that leave you dazed, confused and…

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• zethsg · May 29, 2022 · Recommends

  The “Mathematics for the Practical Man” series, although old, might be a good resource to consider. These are the titles I know are out there: - “Mathematics for the Practical Man” - “Arithmetic for the Practical Man” - “Algebra for the Practical Man” - “Geometry for the Practical Man” - “Calculus for the Practical Man” -> this last one was the one Richard Feynman used to teach himself calculus (https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.9099/full...)…

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• giardini · Apr 25, 2017 · Mentions

  Yes. On page 6 of the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard P. Feynman is a story: "There was a series of math books, which started Arithmetic for the Practical Man, and then Algebra for the Practical Man, and then Trigonometry for the Practical Man, and I learned trigonometry for the practical man from that. I soon forgot it again because I didn't understand it…

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• mikub · Jan 13, 2022 · Mentions

  …don't know the fundamentals at math. So I decided to start from the beginning with basic arithmetic. You probably should ignore book recomendations like Spivak for now. The books that I use right now are "Arithmetic for the practical man" by "J. E. Thompson" and "The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure" by "Hans Magnus Enzensberger" which is a childbook.

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