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Oh hi!

I'm working on a second book: Practical Math for Programmers. Some details at https://pmfpbook.org/

Every weekend I livetweet my notes and research on the new book over at j2kun@mathstodon.xyz, e.g., https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun/110283189611214753

Happy to entertain any ideas folks have for topics! Got a long backlog to go through, but there's always room for more.

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Thank you for making this. I'm a good programmer, but was awful at math in high school and college. I've often thought that now that I'm older (40s) and more patient (most days), I would like to try again, but have never found the right resource. I don't know if this is it, but I appreciate your effort and will order the book ASAP!

Nice. Years ago practical maths to my programming needs was Concrete Mathematics for algorithm analysis, combinatorics for data structures, queuing theory for performance analysis, mathematical stats for data analysis, and optimization theories for discrete optimizations. Calculus and linear algebra came in here and there as tools for those maths. It looks nowadays there's less need for diving into such maths as well-packaged systems and libraries solve most of my problems. I'm very curious what topics your book will cover for the new generation of programmers.

Awesome, I do not have or want mastodon or any social media like it, but did sign up for your newsletter. Thank you for all your hard work.

Once the next book comes out, I’ll buy a couple of copies immediately! Looking forward to it!

Mathstodon is nice, we have LaTeX.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH/110306262198084936

I don’t have anything against ‘ Mathstodon. Just do not have any need for social media.

Is an early access version available for purchase? I would love to see the current state of the book.

I will be purchasing your first book sometime this week. I feel like I can finally make real progress in learning mathematics with ChatGPT as an aide.

No early access, but I published a draft of a sample chapter here, which is one of the simpler applications, but demonstrative of the type of content in the rest of the book: https://jeremykun.com/2022/05/14/practical-math-preview-coll...

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