My bookshelf

in progressJohn MacCormick · A chapter-a-day read-through of MacCormick's tour of the algorithms running quietly under everyday computing — my notes on each chapter, plus the part a 2011 book can't: where each algorithm class came from, and where it has gone since.

plannedAlan Julian Izenman · The whole multivariate toolkit as one map. Izenman's 17 chapters, regrouped from the book's order into the strata a practitioner works in — foundations, regression, classification, ensembles, dimension reduction, latent structure — each lit to where the idea already lives here: a live demo, a research explore, a pillar, or a lab. A chapter at a time; the map fills in as I read.

plannedJ. M. Steele · Learning one inequality so deeply it becomes a method — Steele's master class on Cauchy–Schwarz and the craft of the mathematical inequality. A planned read-and-teach series.

plannedLittle, Teo & van Brunt · Products instead of sums — learning and teaching the theory of infinite products, from convergence to the product formulas behind the sine, the Gamma function, and the zeta function. A planned read-and-teach series.

plannedvarious traditions · A slow series on the traditions I lean on — read both for living well and for thinking clearly under uncertainty, tying contemplative practice to how we actually decide. A planned read-and-teach series.

plannedvarious · Working problems is how the ideas become mine. A running series of solved problems — the elegant, the brutal, and the ones that teach a whole method — drawn from the problem-book shelf.

plannedvarious · The fastest way to truly understand a theorem is to meet the object that almost satisfies it. A running series on the great counterexamples — one strange object at a time, and the plausible-but-false claim it kills. The shelves have dozens.

plannedanthology (Algebra) · Working a classic anthology on Taylor's theorem the long way: from binomial coefficients and the metric/topology axioms up to the Taylor series of sin, cos, and exp, then out to q-series and Hensel's number-field/function-field analogy. The handwritten pages live in the Notebook; the polished derivations land on /derivations.