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An Infinitely Large Napkin

Evan Chen

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I am very much enjoying Evan Chen's "An Infinitely Large Napkin". https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf I think this is in the spirit of Feynman's lectures inasmuch as it's not going to bring you to expert-level understanding, but it is going to do a good job giving you some intuitive understanding, which you might then be able to apply to re-studying the material in more detail. He even takes pull requests, I fixed a few typos.
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