Submission timeline
2007–2026One 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.
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HN comment orderWithout 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…
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
- Total points
- 3685
- Total comments
- 366
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-08 | Immersive Linear Algebra – A free interactive online bookFirst breakout | samlittlewood | 434 | 78 |
| 2017-03-19 | Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015) | sebg | 1015 | 74 |
| 2018-10-23 | Immersive Linear Algebra | jeffreyrogers | 7 | 0 |
| 2019-02-27 | Immersive Linear Algebra (2016)Best thread | reverse | 1269 | 140 |
| 2021-02-26 | Immersive Linear AlgebraHall induction | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-02-28 | Immersive Linear Algebra | Tomte | 80 | 3 |
| 2022-12-22 | Immersive Linear Algebra | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-05-11 | Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)Latest 20+ point return | oumua_don17 | 876 | 71 |
