Good Math
Mathematics is beautiful--and it can be fun and exciting as well as practical. Good Math is your guide to some of the most intriguing topics from two thousand years of mathematics: from Egyptian fractions to Turing machines; from the real meaning of numbers to proof trees, group symmetry, and mechanical computation. If you've ever wondered what lay beyond the proofs you struggled to complete in high school geometry, or what limits the capabilities of computer on your desk, this is the book for you.
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- Good Math: A Geek's Guide to the Beauty of Numbers, Logic, and Computation
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Math-Computation-Pragmatic-Progr...
A great review of college math and CS. The book goes over FOPL, Set theory, Turing machines and lambda calculus among other things. A fun read!
- I recommend you Good Math by Mark C. Chu-Carroll; it's a fantastic book for programmers who don't know higher math and it explains well how Lambda Calculus works. You can also find useful explanations about logic programming, turing completeness, etc. You can take it as an introductory book in Computer Science and read the books mentioned by the author to deepen your knowledge.
- Wildberger has always been this way. Way back in 2007, Marc Chu-Carroll's "Good Math Bad Math" highlighted Wildberger: "This isn’t the typical wankish crackpottery, but rather a deep and interesting bit of crackpottery." In brief, Wildberger is clearly educated, but also clearly rejects axioms that mathematicians accepted a long time ago (infinite sets in this case):
"Dirty Rotten Infinite Sets and the Foundations of Math" http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2007/10/15/dirty-rotten-infinit...
Wildberger also wrote a book on geometry with nothing allowed but rationals. (Or something like that.)
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