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by gooseh 3421 days ago
... And then someone more familiar with, y'know, mathematics went and made one: http://nada.kth.se/~axelhu/mapthematics.pdf
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I've always like this tree [0] because it shows clearly which subjects are prerequisite for learning others.

0. http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/toe.gif

This is great -- I have been looking for different dependency models, and I hadn't seen this one.
It's not a tree ;)
Whoops, you're right. Just a DAG.
I registered here to share this image exactly. Saw it over on /r/math and while any such endeavor is doomed from the start to be unrealistic or incomplete, this one didn't anger me quite as much.
A 2d-map of arxiv papers: http://paperscape.org/
I'd never seen this before. This is fucking great. Much better than the parent post. Thanks for sharing it!