HN Hall of Fame Weekly email

Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)

Screenshot of immersivemath.com captured 2026-07-20
Page preview · captured 2026-07-20

Resurfaced independently across 7 calendar years, with breakout response in 4 of them.

submissions
8
submitters
6
observed span
2015–2024
peak thread · 140 comments
1269 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-05-11
876 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

First comments on top threads

HN comment order

Without having looked at the text in depth, I applaud the idea here - I'm convinced the web browser can help us improve upon maths textbooks printed on paper, but there aren't many 'hypertextbooks' like this in existence (partly, I think, because most people positioned to author a maths textbook want to use latex; and most people who are able to develop a web app aren't positioned to author a maths textbook). I'm interested to know how the authors funded…

Last year, i saw the videos by 3Blue1Brown and inspired by it went on to read some of the standard text books like linear algebra application by Strang. I had seen the Strang videos earlier but somehow did not follow it through. This time however my perspective was changed. I was approaching the subject through the lens of intuition and simplicity. Wherever i found something challenging, i waited for the next day to again re-do it (because i know that…

eellpp·1015-point thread·

Very cool! Does anyone have a list of other similar texts? There's: - Geometry: Joyce's Java version of Euclid's _Elements_: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm... - Physics: https://www.motionmountain.net/ - Chemistry: The Elements by Theodore Gray https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/... A nifty thing my kids enjoyed was the website version of the book, _Bembo's Zoo_ (which sadly is no longer on-line: https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Bembo%27s_Zoo_(Websites... )

This looks awesome. The popup-help's are a little jarring though since there's no indication as to which words will trigger a popup. Also: "Oh come on, you should know what a vector, v, is by now. Check out Chapter 2, for crying out loud." seems kind of harsh to say to the reader while they're reading the first sentence of Chapter 2..

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
4

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
3685

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
366

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-09-08Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online bookFirst breakoutsamlittlewood43478
2017-03-19Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)sebg101574
2018-10-23Immersive Linear Algebrajeffreyrogers70
2019-02-27Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)Best threadreverse1269140
2021-02-26Immersive Linear AlgebraHall inductionTomte30
2021-02-28Immersive Linear AlgebraTomte803
2022-12-22Immersive Linear AlgebraTomte10
2024-05-11Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)Latest 20+ point returnoumua_don1787671