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by 363849473754 664 days ago
This is phenomenal. I currently don’t have a great internet connection, so the pdfs won’t load. Do these books have solutions?
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You may already be aware, but just in case there's some confusion, I want to clarify: if your intention is to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI using the most direct / efficient / well-scaffolded path, then the resources that I'd recommend looking at are the ones that I refer to within the main body of the post, which are for the most part different from the books on that page.

(But to answer your question: the math books on that page have "correct answer" solutions where you can tell if you got it right, but not fully-worked-out solutions. Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning technically does not have any solutions, but most of the problems involve constructing code implementations that match up with worked examples, or that give a desired result, so you can tell if you got it correct and in many cases you can follow along with the worked example to debug your code if it's not producing the desired output.)

Thank you for the response and for making these resources fully available.

Do you plan to make a proofs based book available as well?

My pleasure! I don't plan on writing any more math textbooks.

I had fun writing them and I'm glad that they are making a positive impact, but since then I've been consumed by my work on Math Academy, which I find even more fun/impactful. (We do have a Methods of Proof course out, which is many times more scaffolded, refined, comprehensive, and generally instructionally superior to any textbook I could write independently, not to mention it's adaptive.)

So, long story short, I enjoyed writing those textbooks and am glad they're seeing the light of day, but I've moved on to a new chapter of life and don't plan on writing any more math books in the future (with the possible exception of something super niche like the math behind maximizing learning efficiency in hierarchical knowledge structures).

Understood! How much is it to enroll in your “Methods of Proof” course or in Math Academy more generally? I didn’t didn’t quite understand how it works based on the FAQ, is it lecture-problem based with an interactive testing element for course placement?
Check out https://mathacademy.com/how-it-works, especially the section "The Learning Process," but let me know if you have any follow-up questions not addressed there. Pricing is a flat $49/mo per student, basically an all-you-can-eat buffet of learning.