Ask HN: Would anybody be interested in a series of primers on HS maths topics?

Yeah I do totally see that, and my idea is to make a resource that gives you the value that you extract out of it, although it's a fine line between making yet another boring textbook and a resource that is engaging but also informative.

>For your own interest ... what would you start with?

This is where I am a bit torn, because on one hand, I'd love to jump in to cool stuff that people learnt _how_ to do but were never taught the ideas behind them. For example, integral substitution seem to be taught in this rather boring way where you're told to mechanically execute a bunch of steps that people just need to memorise to pass their exam.

I'd love to jump right in and derive the idea of a substitution from the Reimann integral definition, and go into some detail about the intuition behind it. And then perhaps I can explore more calculus like the idea of limits(which are typically another terribly explained) and then move on to Taylor series expansions etc.

But at the same time I don't want the barrier of entry to be really high, so mabye starting with the idea of derivatives, and then approaching higher level topics might be a better structure?

The fact that we're talking about HS level helps I think, since the number of applicable experts is pretty high.

Funnily enough, I am the exact opposite; I struggle with statistics and mechanics since they are very linked to the real world and I seem to thrive in understanding abstract ideas. The more abstract, the better :)

I like to think of abstract mathematics as a bunch of code in a library, the code on it's own is vast and has no real purpose when it is standalone, but it becomes immediately useful when a program with a purpose uses it in tangible ways. I would definitely love to make abstract mathematics make sense as a part of the project.

>To answer your question, I’d be interested in analytic geometry and similar concepts which would related to computer graphics.

Those are good suggestions that I didn't think about at first; function transformations and polar coordinates are definitely worth exploring, and a lot of computer graphics involves calculus and linear algebra that I do plan on covering already.

>Where would you post? Is there a feed we could subscribe to?

Still figuring details out, but probably on my .github.io domain(and if the project receives enough attention, I might move it onto it's own domain) and I'll likely use an email based system or an RSS feed after I tackle the "make good learning resources" problem.