Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
FAFOing on something this weekend... Drop links to your favorite PDFs below 🫡 Stuff like this: Operation Northwoods aka US Military Memo on Invading Cuba in 1962 https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
“Calculus Made Easy” by Silvanus Thompson (1910) I doubt there’s ever been a textbook (of any subject) so well written. I’m in awe of this author. He truly DOES make it easy, I swear. The prologue sums it up: “The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics […] seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way. Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard.” https://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
this was one of my first touchpoints with math! thanks for dropping
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
Yesss awesome! And I love this thread btw
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