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Guest video 3/5 while I'm on leave is now up! It's by a former SoME winner, covering key ideas in statistical mechanics to create a simple and discrete model mirroring the behavior of a fluid transitioning between a liquid and gaseous state. Enjoy!
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The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.
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And I wonder sometimes if that is the reason people don't recognize the use of math in software engineering is because the math they do need is not the math they've been exposed to.
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Though the book perhaps gets a little too math-ey by the end (and this is coming from someone who is literally teaching discrete mathematics to university students at the moment), Dantzig provides a compelling overview of what we mean when we talk about "numbers," and why this is a question that we must repeatedly keep re-visiting.
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Just because we use a different branch of math doesn't mean we're not doing engineering.
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Silicon Valley celebrates disruption because it has given up on institutions ever solving their succession problem.Their words
Silicon Valley enthuses over “disruption” because we have become so used to the succession problem remaining unsolved within discrete institutions such as companies.
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