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by PaulHoule 79 days ago
When I was in high school I thought book this was so much fun

http://182.160.97.198:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/...

which is all about the kind of numerical analysis you would do by hand and introduces a lot of really cool math like the calculus of differences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference

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In order to mitigate link rot, the book is Numerical Analysis Second Edition, from Francis Scheid (Schaum's Outlines)
Ah, very cool. My personal favourite is this one: https://archive.org/details/engineeringformu00giec_0/page/n5...

My father owned a copy of it which I still have to this day. It had a lot of different formulas than the ones we were taught in school, and I liked the range of topics that it covered.

The typography and design inside the book is beautiful but the cover looks like an old bargain-store flyer. There's an expression about that, something about judging a book by its cover? I can't remember exactly.
I just tried a portion of the url & it took me to Bangladesh university - http://182.160.97.198:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/ . Intersecting. When I go to root of this url, the error messages are listing the softwares this site is powered by. Generally this is not considered a secure way of protecting a site.
i've been missing this knowledge! thank you for the recommendation.