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2026-07-21 16:31 UTC
In a very real way, it's "Gödel, Escher, Bach" for kids! Like check out these pages. A pretty decent introduction to "proofs" for a very young child!
Thinking about it now, the book came out 4 years after GEB -- I would not be surprised to learn that the author was influenced and maybe even thought "what if I bring some of these concepts into childhood math education?"
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2026-07-23 03:09
@darius@friend.camp I read some more of the PDF: it has a very GEB feel.
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@darius@friend.camp 2026-07-21 16:41
Honorable mention to "Prof. E. McSquared's Fantastic Original & Highly Edifying Calculus Primer" (different author) https://archive.org/details/profemcsquaredsf0000swan/page/2/mode/2up Did I learn any calculus from it? Not so much. Mayyybe some basic pre-calculus, but at age 12 I hit my limit at, well, limits. Did it mean that I spent ages 12-15 excited to finally get to take a calculus class and learn what the hell all this wacky stuff was? You better believe it!