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I love the "simplest nontrivial example" approach to exposition. I think I learned a lot from the article because it was grounded in the concrete problem "call a BLAS function from Javascript". Great post!

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Thanks! There’s a series of books I really like, The Theoretical Minimum[1], that also takes that kind of approach but for teaching physics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum

Yes, I also like The Theoretical Minimum. Ha, I didn't realize there is more than one book! I think I only have the classical mechanics book. Need to buy the other ones.

I tried to organize many physics subjects in a similar manner, with many worked out examples (minimal, but non-trivial/complete):

https://www.theoretical-physics.com/dev/index.html

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