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The Map of Mathematics

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2022.
  • Presented by Dominic Walliman, creator of Domain of Science

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Dominic Walliman presents an animated overview of the entire field of mathematics, showing how pure and applied math relate.

The entire field of mathematics summarised in a single map! This shows how pure mathematics and applied mathematics relate to each other and all of the sub-topics they are made from. Get the maps! dosmaps.com Here's my Instagram: instagram.com/dcwalliman Patreon: patreon.com/ScienceMaps To err is to human, and I human a lot. I always try my best to be as correct as possible, but unfortunately I make mistakes. This is the errata where I correct my silly mistakes. My goal is to one day do a video with no errors! 1. The number one is not a prime number. The definition of a prime number is a number can be divided evenly only by 1, or itself. And it must be a whole number GREATER than 1. (This last bit is the bit I forgot). 2. In the trigonometry section I drew cos(theta) = opposite / adjacent. This is the kind of thing you learn in high school and guess what. I got it wrong! Dummy. It should be cos(theta) = adjacent / hypotenuse. 3. My drawing of dice is slightly wrong. Most dice have their opposite sides adding up to 7, so when I drew 3 and 4 next to each other that is incorrect. 4. I said that the Gödel Incompleteness Theorems implied that mathematics is made up by humans, but that is wrong, just ignore that statement. I have learned more about it now, here is a good video explaining it: youtu.be/O4ndIDcDSGc 5. In the animation about imaginary numbers I drew the real axis as vertical and the imaginary axis as horizontal which is opposite to the conventional way it is done. Thanks so much to my supporters on Patreon. I hope to make money from my videos one day, but I’m not there yet! If you enjoy my videos and would like to help me make more this is the best way and I appreciate it very much. patreon.com/domainofscience Here are links to some of the sources I used in this video. Links: Summary of mathematics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics Earliest human counting: mathtimeline.weebly.com/early-human-counting-tools.html First use of zero: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#History livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html First use of negative numbers: quora.com/Who-is-the-inventor-of-negative-numbers Renaissance science: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_in_the_Renaissance History of complex numbers: rossroessler.tripod.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics Proof that pi is irrational: quora.com/How-do-you-prove-that-pi-is-an-irrational-number and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrational#Laczko…

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent high-level overview of the entire field of mathematics for self-learners.

NiklasMorton Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: How to self-learn math?”

I'd start with this video to get an overview of all the topics and areas that mathematics entails (some might be unknown to you) link to this video . Then you go ahead and research a bit what sounds interesting to you and then you might google that topic and add "foundations" to that google search. It's just that most school/university math is heavily focused on analysis and algebra but there is so much more!

AareyBabaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?”

I suggest this "Map of mathematics" as a starting point that gives you a reasonable birds-eye view of the field. link to this video

AareyBabaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “A Map of Mathematics”

This is a much more entertaining map of mathematics in about 10 minutes link to this video For a history of mathematics NJ Wildberger's lectures are easy to listen to. link

mathnmusicon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Why books don't work (2019)”

…his is beautifully expressed. Knowledge consists of connections across concepts but those connections are rarely shown explicitly in textbooks. Even wikipedia, while allowing you to traverse the connections back and forth easily, does not do a great job of giving you the bird's eye view of a subject or a field. Check out this "map" of mathematics: link to this video Every subject needs a similar map. Besides visualizing the connections, we'd also need interactivity to the topic that helps with forming new mental models - which is the core aspect of learning. Jupyter notebooks, ObservableHQ, Mathigon are some of the good projects working on this aspect. Disclaimer: I am building the open-source project…

lcordieron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?”

This is a good map of Mathematics to get an overview of where you can go... link to this video Then Giles McMullen-Klein has an awesome recommended list for data science (your mileage may vary). link

RossBencinaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: How to self-learn math?”

I agree with other comments that "learn maths" is too broad. You can take a university degree in maths and still be just at the beginning of "learning maths." I recommend refining your goal somehow: perhaps to learn math related to certain applications that you're interested in, or learn math in a certain area (e.g. high-school algebra, geometry, probability, discrete math, graph theory, calculus, pure math, abstract algebra, topology, etc). If you have not mastered high-school algebra and other pre-calculus subjects, you should start there; most other maths subjects will assume that you know these things. Calculus takes up a lot of space in upper high-school and early university courses --…

sigi45on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Berkeley offers its data science course online for free”

…not. there are no local locations to meet up with people. There should be a global initiative for global free and open access learning. Sponsored and supported by companies and countries. Build upon a core of a knowledge graph based on topics or 'snippets of knowledge'. Like for example: math -> add -> sub Something like 'The Map of Mathematics' ( link to this video ) And when you wanna get the global accepted math 101 level, you have to take specific topics / snippets. And those snippets can than be filled with different people who are making a lecture for that topic and you can choose whom you like more or who is better in explaining it to you. What do i do instead? I ask around for the lecture scrip…

lamenameon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A Map of Mathematics”

The educational youtube channel Domain of Science has a pretty wide-scope Map of Mathematics, depending on your background link to this video