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by mumblingbumbler 1890 days ago
> why you are the right person to write about the book

Is that a request to see your credentials in paper form? I believe I could write books that would make Rudin's analysis books or CLRS' algo book more accessible[0] to a lay person without losing rigor. But I lack a PhD certificate in either math or compsci. Can I simply write a sample chapter and send it to their (say, Manning) technical team for evaluation?

[0] For example, just the act of stepping through/expanding the given algos/functions in the style of Scheme/Discrete math textbooks would already make CLRS more approachable, not to mention breaking down the existing math into maximally explicit bits.