🖉 First drafts of Napkin up!
EDIT: Here’s a July 19 draft that fixes some of the glaring issues that were pointed out.
This morning I finally uploaded the first drafts of my Napkin project, which I’ve been working on since December 2014. See the Napkin tab above for a listing of all drafts.
Napkin is my personal exposition project, which unifies together a lot of my blog posts and even more that I haven’t written on yet into a single coherent narrative. It’s written for students who don’t know much higher math, but are curious and already are comfortable with proofs. It’s especially suited for e.g. students who did contests like USAMO and IMO.
There are still a lot of rough edges in the draft, but I haven’t been able to find much time to work on it this whole calendar year, and so I’ve finally decided the perfect is the enemy of the good and it’s about time I brought this project out of the garage.
I’d much appreciate any comments, corrections, or suggestions, however minor. Please let me know! I do plan to keep updating this draft as I get comments, though I can’t promise that I’ll be very fast in doing so.
Here’s a table of contents, in brief:
- I. Basic Algebra and Topology
- II. Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus
- III. Groups, Rings, and More
- IV. Complex Analysis
- V. Quantum Algorithms
- VI. Algebraic Topology I: Homotopy
- VII. Category Theory
- VIII. Differential Geometry
- IX. Algebraic Topology II: Homology
- X. Algebraic NT I: Rings of Integers
- XI. Algebraic NT II: Galois and Ramification Theory
- XII. Representation Theory
- XIII. Algebraic Geometry I: Varieties
- XIV. Algebraic Geometry II: Schemes
- XV. Set Theory I: ZFC, Ordinals, and Cardinals
- XVI. Set Theory II: Model Theory and Forcing
(I’ve also posted this on Reddit to try and grab a larger audience. We’ll see how that goes.)