Beyond Seven Review No. 65
Posted on Wed 10 March 2021 in Beyond Seven Review
(Quantitative) cultural studies š£
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Six Septembers: Mathematics for the Humanist
An open-access e-book. It's quite good! " Description Scholars of all stripes are turning their attention to materials that represent enormous opportunities for the future of humanistic inquiry. The purpose of this book is to impart the concepts that underlie the mathematics they are likely to encounter and to unfold the notation in a way that removes that particular barrier completely. This book is a primer for developing the skills to enable humanist scholars to address complicated technical material with confidence. This book, to put it plainly, is concerned with the things that the author of a technical article knows, but isnāt saying. Like any field, mathematics operates under a regime of shared assumptions, and it is our purpose to elucidate some of those assumptions for the newcomer. The individual subjects we tackle are (in order): logic and proof, discrete mathematics, abstract algebra, probability and statistics, calculus, and differential equations. This is not at all the order in which these subjects are usually taught in school curricula, and indeed, it is possible to take a course of study that does not include all of them. Our ordering is borne of our own sense of how best to convey the concepts of mathematics to humanists, and is, like mathematics itself, strongly cumulative."
Book and publishing history š
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Reedsy: Find the perfect editor, designer or marketer
Marketplace for finding a book editor, designer, or marketer. No idea if it is any good. (Book publishers continue to be the middleman here.)
Data analysis and Bayesian statistics ā½
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Blobs in Games: Orbits of planets
"When I'm not feeling particularly inspired to work on a bigger project, I explore topics that might be useful later. I have been reading about planetary exploration, orbital mechanics, lunar chemistry, and other space topics. Along the way I found John Carlos Baez's blog post about the Pentagram of Venus. What a cool image! I wanted to try it myself. So I did."
Free/libre and open-source software šŗ
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Damm algorithm
A recently developed check-digit algorithm.
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