Books and Shiet

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Books and Shiet

Post by TheReal_ND » Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:24 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486409163/?t ... verfl08-20
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et al. This is a readable summary by the top Soviet mathematicians, and as the Soviets had no copyright it is incredibly inexpensive. If you have mastered this, you are pretty well prepared for anything.
No idea how true this is but I've been meaning to learn some maths for a while.

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Fife » Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:15 am

TheReal_ND wrote:https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486409163/?t ... verfl08-20
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et al. This is a readable summary by the top Soviet mathematicians, and as the Soviets had no copyright it is incredibly inexpensive. If you have mastered this, you are pretty well prepared for anything.
No idea how true this is but I've been meaning to learn some maths for a while.
Try this guy out as a starter.

You might dig him the most.


https://www.amazon.com/Simon-Singh/e/B0 ... sr=1-2-ent

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by TheReal_ND » Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:17 am

Esotoric AF

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Okeefenokee » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:26 pm

edit, just noticed this is a book thread, not a youtube thread.
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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Penner » Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:48 am

I recently posted this on the DCF dying days for nuke, and now, here is it again and I have posted a few more book recommendations and they are all great reads:

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Okeefenokee » Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:26 pm

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http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Gilg ... B002UZJRRA

Four hours long. You can through it in a day on a long drive.
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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by TheReal_ND » Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:53 pm

That is one I really need to read. I've seen parts of it here and there. Fascinating.

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Hastur » Sat Dec 03, 2016 3:54 pm

I think this one mightt be for Nuke. Im not kidding btw.

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Re: Books and Shiet

Post by Haumana » Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:41 pm

Hastur wrote:I think this one mightt be for Nuke. Im not kidding btw.

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Dude, was on about so much more than just calling Trump over a year ago. It was fun watching him break down the psychological aspects of the race for the last year.

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Re: Books and Shiet

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