I started a little math club in Bangalore

144•viveknathani_•8mo ago

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idlip•8mo ago

This is nice. You can spread the word to r/bangalore and related subs. But sure small communities sound like more fun than a big one.

Are many of them programmers/techie or academicians?

viveknathani_•8mo ago

hey thanks! for now, a lot of them have some sort of a tech background

ivan_ah•8mo ago

Nice to see adults (re)learning math. It's one of the rare subjects that are guaranteed to provide "knowledge buzz" and also widely applicable.

<shameless plug>For other adults interested in learning math, check out my (nonfree) book here: https://noBSmath.com/ PDF preview and sample chapter: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmath_v5_previe... I also have a longer book that includes calculus and physics (cf. links in profile). </shameless plug>

ivan_ah•8mo ago

Here are the concept maps from the books that might be interesting for anyone learning these topics:

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

- https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...

necessary•8mo ago

Thanks for posting these - these books look like exactly what I have been looking for recently! I'm someone who procrastinated and crammed my way through high school and undergrad level maths and then promptly forgot all of it once I finished schooling. I plan on working through them soon. Hopefully this isn't an annoying question, but do you still intend to publish a guide to statistics?

ivan_ah•8mo ago

> do you still intend to publish a guide to statistics?

Yes! Very much so. I'm in the final stages of cooking it right now, hoping to make it available for sale in the coming months.

Statistics is by far the hardest subject I've had to write about, as I had to (re)learn pretty much everything. I did several rewrites (working on tis book for the past seven years!), but now it's finally ready to ship. You can check out the notebooks from the book here: https://nobsstats.com/ and a detailed outline here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fwep23-95U-w1QMPU31nOvUn...

ETA July for digital download, then one round of copy-editing, and September for first print version.

mtts•8mo ago

Super cool! Where did you get the problems from?

kylehotchkiss•8mo ago

This looks like a really great way to make some new friends and challenge each other. Have fun!!

vivzkestrel•8mo ago

if you guys ever do this in mumbai, i ll happily join ya

viveknathani_•8mo ago

sure thing, currently figuring out ways to scale, thanks!

seanhunter•8mo ago

As someone who is studying maths myself I absolutely love this- What a great idea.

viveknathani_•8mo ago

hey thanks!

agcat•8mo ago

Love the idea. All the best!

viveknathani_•8mo ago

thanks!

nxobject•8mo ago

What a fantastic idea – I know I got the most out of my college math classes collaborating on homework – well, I really only survived because of collaboration. Learning math has been inseparable from collaboration since Ethen.

alecst•8mo ago

Love this. Anyone know of something similar in NYC? Casual, unpretentious math club?

tines•8mo ago

Anything like this in Austin?

Avicebron•8mo ago

I don't know why but actually rendering the equations (mathjax? didn't check) is such an eye-catching way to see those problems in a feed like that, and having it almost mimic HN with a comment section is awesome. This is super cool!

dmd•8mo ago

No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?

random_coder•8mo ago

I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

dmd•8mo ago

Yeah. It's not even the only wrong answer on the page, which is troubling.

dgfitz•8mo ago

Why has this been on the front page all day?

ping00•8mo ago

Good luck Vivek, this looks really nice! I was in Bangalore for the first time this Feb and had a great time. You should check out Mecca cafe, it's thoda grimy but a total vibe.

ashutosh-mishra•8mo ago

Best! Great way to connect with interesting people!

What's your criteria for letting people in? Like what should be the minimum level of maths skills they should already have?

wanderingmind•8mo ago

Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support

trueismywork•8mo ago

Rope in people from TIFR and IISC and ISI, they have a lot of activities going on like this.

scaradim•8mo ago

Just to motivate your team: a mathematician just became the President of Romania this month - https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=1571 :-)

sparky_z•8mo ago

Can't forget to mention the new Pope as well. It's been a big month for math majors on the international stage.

thuruv•8mo ago

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..

jak6jak•8mo ago

I want to create my own club in a small town. Not necessary in math but in gamedev. How did you get people to show up for the first meeting?

lolu_plan•8mo ago

how can I join this ?

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I started a little math club in Bangalore

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