Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Explains the big ideas of math
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IM
This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…
2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →
- 2MO
2017 · mathcha.io · its alternatives →
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Broad span of algorithms, covered in clear depth
2015 · its alternatives →
- 4IC
2018 · ximera.osu.edu · its alternatives →
- 5AM
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 6VT
Hi everyone! I'm the author of this project. I wrote it because I think that the math that makes characters move in games and movies is incredibly beautiful, and I wanted to give others a glimpse into it. It's crazy to think that quaternions, an abstract mathematical tool discovered by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, would be so perfectly suited to solve hard problems in the world of 3D character animation more than a hundred years later. The story of how he discovered quaternions is also beautiful. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia: "Hamilton was looking for ways of extending complex numbers…
2022 · diegomacario.github.io · its alternatives →
- 7IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
- 8IS
2016 · infinityschool.co.uk · its alternatives →
- 9EI
2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →
- 10IM
Hey, maker here. After launching a daily word search game, I randomly thought of this math game while driving. Finally got around to making it and I think it turned out pretty cool. It’s a math search game that’s meant to help you practice your quick addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. I’m hoping it’ll help people (even those like me who aren’t big on math) learn and increase their speeds. (There are also some settings you can enable to make the game harder) If you try it out, please let me know if you found it fun, if you have anything you’d like me to add, or if you…
2024 · worchle.com · its alternatives →
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- 12EZ
2015 · expii.com · its alternatives →
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"The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming
2015 · its alternatives →
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The teachable, repeatable process of CRO by ConversionXL
2015 · its alternatives →
- 17MA
2019 · mathigon.org · its alternatives →
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- 20IP
2017 · duetosymmetry.com · its alternatives →
- 21DT
2020 · mathpendium.org · its alternatives →
- 22TM
I recently published a book called “The Magic of Code” which is about the delights of the computational world, examining computing as a kind of “humanistic liberal art” that connects to so many topics, from art and biology to philosophy and language. The link I’ve shared is to a page on my book’s website where you can download a pdf of the introduction, to give HN readers a taste of what is inside. Right now there is so much worry and concern around technology that I feel like some people—though not the folks here—have forgotten how much fun that code and computation can also be. So I wanted…
2025 · themagicofcode.com · its alternatives →
- 23AM
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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