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“temporal locality”:
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
He discovered three irreducible types of operator ring that he called ‘factors’.
Ananyo Bhattacharya • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Parag Parikh’s book Value Investing and Behavioral Finance.
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Hardy was, in Newton’s phrase, ‘in the prime of his age for invention’, and this came in his early forties, unusually late for a mathematician.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
in general, an introductory textbook on probability is Richard Isaac’s The Pleasures of Probability.9
Thomas H. Davenport • Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
There is something else, though, at which he was clearly superior to Einstein or Rutherford or any other great genius: and that is at turning any work of the intellect, major or minor or sheer play, into a work of art. It was that gift above all, I think, which made him, almost without realizing it, purvey such intellectual delight.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
As Paul Graham wisely reminds us: "Do things that don't scale."