[HN Gopher] An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] Author : benstrumental Score : 115 points Date : 2022-02-11 15:09 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (venhance.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (venhance.github.io) | jimmyvalmer wrote: | Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded | I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my | way of thinking in half the time. | Cauchy2022 wrote: | Off-topic: Mobile version only loads the title page of the book | and leaves all remaining pages blank. I thought that was the | joke. | tartakovsky wrote: | 1. Not off topic. 2. Mobile version of what, it's a pdf. 3. I | can see the full text on my iPhone. | apollo1213 wrote: | You can read the PDF directly in browser: | https://docmadeeasy.com/v/484772290 | Cauchy2022 wrote: | Yea on my Android app, pages such as Twitter and pdf cannot | be loaded and displayed properly, and I have to open | browser to see the actual content. | Cauchy2022 wrote: | The Material app on Android. Loading pdf in app and it turns | out that I can only see the first page followed by endless | blank pages | quirino wrote: | Evan Chen is a very valuable person in the Math Olympiad scene. | | The Geometry book [1] he wrote in high school is required reading | for any serious competitor and I believe he is the main | responsible for some bringing some techniques into the olympic | meta, such as Barycentric Coordinates. | | Also, his blog post [2] about writing is one of the best ones | I've ever read. | | [1] https://web.evanchen.cc/geombook.html [2] | https://blog.evanchen.cc/2015/03/14/writing/ | dezren39 wrote: | thank you for this comment this turned my day around | mgradowski wrote: | This book exposed me to proper math back in high school, I liked | it. | tgtefstg wrote: | dang wrote: | A bit of past discussion: | | _An Infinitely Large Napkin_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20168936 - June 2019 (32 | comments) | | _An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467506 - Sept 2016 (3 | comments) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-11 23:00 UTC)