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Susan Rigetti
Personal blog · susanrigetti.com/thoughts · on HN as susanrigettimathsciencephilosophy
Susan Rigetti's personal blog at susanrigetti.com covers math, science and philosophy. Since 2021, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “So You Want to Learn Physics, Second Edition”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Often recommended · 25 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Susan Rigetti's self-study guides for math, physics and philosophy, recommending them as structured starting points for adults teaching themselves.
- Recommended for · 25 comments
- Called a great self-learning resource, a useful guide and a nice overview; one commenter has followed her lists for years.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- So You Want to Learn Physics, Second Edition24 people · 32 mentions · first linked 2021-04-21
- So you want to study mathematics23 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
- So You Want to Study Philosophy6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-04-28
What Hacker News says?
I found 'So You Want to Learn Physics...' helpful: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics Agreed on prioritizing financial freedom.
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on “Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it”Submitted So you want to study mathematics as a story · 604 points
HN discussionCheck out Susan Rigetti's guide: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
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on “Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking”Submitted So You Want to Study Philosophy as a story · 174 points
HN discussionNot to be too negative but I wouldn't have super high hopes for this if it's anything like, “So you want to study philosophy”[1][2] [1] website :- https://www.susanrigetti.com/philosophy [2] discussion :- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367416 A shame I missed out on that discussion.
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on “So you want to study mathematics”Submitted So You Want to Learn Physics, Second Edition as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCheck out my physics guide: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics . It has both the physics core curriculum AND the math essentials you need to know in order to understand the physics essentials. (And thank you!)
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on “So you want to study mathematics”Submitted Susan Rigetti's guide to learning Physics (2021) as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> You may find this resource useful. It was written by Susan Rigetti (née Fowler): > So You Want to Study Mathematics… > https://www.susanrigetti.com/math HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30591177
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on “Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?”Submitted So you want to study mathematics as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI feel people ask "how to learn math?" every other week. Probably a good thing more people want to learn math. Anyways, I have reasons to believe Susan Rigetti's recommendations [1] are good. [1] https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
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on “Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?”Submitted Math (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou may find this resource useful. It was written by Susan Rigetti (née Fowler) [1]: So You Want to Study Mathematics… https://www.susanrigetti.com/math She also wrote: So You Want to Learn Physics… https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fowler
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on “Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults?”Submitted So You Want to Learn Physics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'll quote my other comment: If you want to learn math, a good place to start would be AoPS curriculum https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/recommendations Continue with Susan Rigetti's curriculum https://www.susanrigetti.com/math You can get answers to your questions here https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/ and here https://math.stackexchange.com/
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on “The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time”Submitted Physics (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> she was an SRE engineer at uber You might want to look into what she had to go through while she worked there. It's well known. Also, Ms. Rigetti has similar guides for physics[1] and philosophy[2]. I intend to slowly go through her math guide over the years. I already started working through How to Prove It by Vellman. [1] https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics [2] https://www.susanrigetti.com/philosophy
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on “Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good teacher?”Submitted So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe question reminds me of Susan Rigetti's recommendations for math self-study. If your goal is to self-study the equivalent of a university undergraduate mathematics degree, this is one approach: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
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on “Ask HN: Serious mathematics books that can replace a good teacher?”Submitted Physics (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is great - I don't know if a full survey is in the cards for me, but The Search for Certainty grabbed my eye. This reminds me of this guide https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics for physics, and she has one for self teaching math and philosophy as well. It makes me curious to see a similar reading list put together for computer science - the history and theory of computing, or the kinds of things you might gener…
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on “Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)”Submitted So You Want to Learn Physics Second Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLots of great suggestions here! The original question was probably answered already, but nevertheless I'd like to humbly leave a link to the article “So You Want to Study Mathematics…” by Susan Rigetti [1] — it covers not only linear algebra but other parts of math as well. Quite inspirational, I'd say. [1]: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
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on “Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?”Submitted The Problem of Being Known as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou should look at Susan Rigetti's post - https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
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on “Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?”Submitted Philosophy (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDepends on what you need, I suppose. This resource is said to be pretty good: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math I decided start with Calculus I on MathAcademy because that was the last thing I did in High School. MathAcademy disagreed and told me to do PreCalculus and even bits of Algebra II first, but I knew better (MathAcademy was right and in hindsight I should’ve just started the Foundation courses to build up m…
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on “500 days of math”Submitted So You Want to Study Mathematics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSusan Fowler has a guide for learning math, section 2 is "Introduction to Proofs." She suggests "How to Prove It: A Structured Approach" by Daniel J. Velleman. https://www.susanrigetti.com/math
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on “Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?”Submitted So You Want to Study Philosophy as a story · 2 points
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