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I started a little math club in Bangalore

144 points| viveknathani_ | 9 months ago |teachyourselfmath.app

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idlip|9 months ago

This is nice. You can spread the word to r/bangalore and related subs. But sure small communities sound like more fun than a big one.

Are many of them programmers/techie or academicians?

viveknathani_|9 months ago

hey thanks! for now, a lot of them have some sort of a tech background

ivansavz|9 months ago

Nice to see adults (re)learning math. It's one of the rare subjects that are guaranteed to provide "knowledge buzz" and also widely applicable.

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necessary|9 months ago

Thanks for posting these - these books look like exactly what I have been looking for recently! I'm someone who procrastinated and crammed my way through high school and undergrad level maths and then promptly forgot all of it once I finished schooling. I plan on working through them soon. Hopefully this isn't an annoying question, but do you still intend to publish a guide to statistics?

Avicebron|9 months ago

I don't know why but actually rendering the equations (mathjax? didn't check) is such an eye-catching way to see those problems in a feed like that, and having it almost mimic HN with a comment section is awesome. This is super cool!

mtts|9 months ago

Super cool! Where did you get the problems from?

ping00|9 months ago

Good luck Vivek, this looks really nice! I was in Bangalore for the first time this Feb and had a great time. You should check out Mecca cafe, it's thoda grimy but a total vibe.

nxobject|9 months ago

What a fantastic idea – I know I got the most out of my college math classes collaborating on homework – well, I really only survived because of collaboration. Learning math has been inseparable from collaboration since Ethen.

seanhunter|9 months ago

As someone who is studying maths myself I absolutely love this- What a great idea.

thuruv|9 months ago

Kudos., Personalizing problems to familiar places hitting a nostalgic sweet spot for me.. Reminds me how much fun it used to be and creative math gets when you’re bouncing ideas around..

ashutosh-mishra|9 months ago

Best! Great way to connect with interesting people!

What's your criteria for letting people in? Like what should be the minimum level of maths skills they should already have?

jak6jak|9 months ago

I want to create my own club in a small town. Not necessary in math but in gamedev. How did you get people to show up for the first meeting?

wanderingmind|9 months ago

Awesome initiative. For people not physically in Bangalore, maybe start a discord and we can asynchronously try to work through problems and get support

dmd|9 months ago

No matter how many times I do number 20, I end up with 615. Am I wrong, or is the solution sheet wrong?

random_coder|9 months ago

I think you're right and the given answer of 596 is wrong. It's 380 m-w, 190 m-m, 45 w-w handshakes, so 615 in total.

trueismywork|9 months ago

Rope in people from TIFR and IISC and ISI, they have a lot of activities going on like this.

kylehotchkiss|9 months ago

This looks like a really great way to make some new friends and challenge each other. Have fun!!

alecst|9 months ago

Love this. Anyone know of something similar in NYC? Casual, unpretentious math club?

lolu_plan|8 months ago

how can I join this ?

tines|9 months ago

Anything like this in Austin?

vivzkestrel|9 months ago

if you guys ever do this in mumbai, i ll happily join ya

viveknathani_|9 months ago

sure thing, currently figuring out ways to scale, thanks!

dgfitz|9 months ago

Why has this been on the front page all day?