Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus
by Joel Kilty, Alex McAllister · first published 2018
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The best book if you have any programming background is 'Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus' by Joel Kilty and Alex M. McAllister reviewed here: https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematical-modeling-... There's a small workshop for it here: https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/calculus.html…
on “Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures” ↗…sure of what they are doing (I'm still not 100% sure.. hence why I hire people now). If you want a great Calculus text that explains those nasty looking Euler's e nested statistics distributions try Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus by Joel Kilty everything from partial derivatives, gradients, x^n, e^x, trig, integrals, limits is explained in terms of parameters to modeling functions, if you write software it will be easy to understand.…
on “Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (2019)” ↗…(base-10) logarithm of a number is essentially how many digits a number has." The final (AI) part then ends up needing exponential functions and logarithmic functions. It references a book "Obtain the book Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus listed in the beginning of this page via library genesis or other means, and skip to chapter 1.4 Exponential Functions. There is a short demonstration here that assumes you have a basic idea what a derivative…
on “Math Foundations from Scratch” ↗