What the rain knows

I’m not sure yet precisely how I should try working through Apostol. The last time that I did a mathematics book, it was a probability and stats text, and I ended up solving all of the exercises for which there were solutions in the back of the book, longhand, in a couple of marble composition notebooks. In each instance where I chose to use R or MS Excel to solve a problem (sometimes, I will sheepishly admit, instead of working it through by hand), I would print out the commands used and the results and tape them onto the relevant notebook page.

I used Gunnlaugur Þór Briem’s bash script to install Steve Mayer’s LatexRender plugin and can testify that it works, but am not sure how much practical it would be to use this blog as a notebook. Probably not very.

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