This post discusses my recent transition to studying mathematics full-time, whatever that means :-)
*tl;dr:* math.leo <https://github.com/edreamleo/EKR-Math/blob/main/math.leo>, in the EKR-Math <https://github.com/edreamleo/EKR-Math> repo, contains most of my mathematical work. *A brief history* The transition began approximately December 5, the day I released Leo 6.8.3. Progress has been faster than expected. My energy has varied between high and extremely high! Guiding all study is Steve Brunton's <https://www.me.washington.edu/facultyfinder/steve-brunton> course, ME 564 <http://faculty.washington.edu/sbrunton/me564/>. The real work involves mastering all the exercises. There are no shortcuts. I'll take as long as necessary to relearn all the prerequisites. *Tools* The Khan Academy <https://www.khanacademy.org/math> helps me brush up on topics I last studied 55 years ago. The superb Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com>website converts LaTeX input to beautiful typeset results. Each exercise in the ME 564 will get a separate worksheet. It's been a ton of fun relearning LaTeX. Overleaf is the math notebook of my dreams. I use Mathway <https://www.mathway.com/Algebra>as an algebraic calculator. I may investigate various competitors as the need arises. *Infrastructure and workflow* Using math.leo and creating the EKR-Math repo seem natural in retrospect, but it took a while to see how effective this workflow is. The script <https://groups.google.com/g/leo-editor/c/DmGYL7F5evI/m/4SHJjq2QAAAJ>that converts Jupyter Notebooks to Python files was a crucial innovation. That script allowed me to use Leo instead of Jupyter. Later, I realized that Leo's outlines are *way* better than Jupyter Notebooks for organizing all my math-related programs and data. It is amazingly easy to run pyplot scripts from Leo. The execute-script command just works! I still have lots to learn about Matplotlib, but that can wait for now. Yesterday, I wrote a straightforward script that calls pdflatex <https://pypi.org/project/pdflatex/>directly from Leo. It's in math.leo if you are interested. The idea was to typeset LaTeX directly from Leo. However, a few minutes of experimentation showed that Overleaf was more convenient. Still, the script might come in handy someday. *Summary* math.leo demonstrates a natural workflow for studying mathematics and recording all results. The surprising conclusion is that Leo is a *much *better foundation than either MatLab or Jupyter. Now it's time to switch focus from infrastructure and workflow to actual study. I am comfortable with the web's resources and am eager to dive deeply into engineering mathematics. My latest mental trick is to pretend I'm a super-bright 12-year-old. I'm *way* ahead of my peers and am eager to learn as much college engineering math as I can before high school :-) All my good work habits will support my studies. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/a7be7d28-9c3b-4b35-9041-5f3fe3f79916n%40googlegroups.com.
