Recommended as an easy-to-follow math history course that gives perspective on the subject.
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The best math & theory (other) videos, according to Hacker News
8 videos about math & theory (other) that Hacker News commenters keep pointing each other to, ranked by how many separate months they were recommended. Part of Mathematics & Theoretical CS.
HN recommends the series as an approachable but rigorous way to learn control theory, with good production quality.
HN recommends Boyd's lectures as a fantastic, often funny follow-up to linear algebra and as a step in machine learning study paths.
Cited in HN discussions of math and CS education reform as an argument that school math is boring because it is taught wrong.
HN links it to explain why people repeatedly get large-number arithmetic wrong in discussions of money and mental math.
It is the go-to primary source whenever HN discusses posits versus IEEE floats, valued for Kahan's sharp critique despite the poor audio.
HN mostly uses it as a cautionary example of missing basic conceptual understanding in debates about math education and hiring.
HN mostly cites it as a source or related clip in math and neural network discussions, not as a strong recommendation.
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