I've had this in my list for a while, too. I think an excellent place to start is the "Street Fighting Mathematics" course at MIT. The textbooks are available online, too, so it's a complete course you can look at.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/index.htm Gil Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > For a long time, I've thought that I'd like to go back and get more math, > because I feel like I could use a lot more of a background in statistics than > I have, and I'm sure that there are a lot of other things I'd be able to > apply. > > So I thought I would ask you group of folks....if you were going to build a > conference tutorial course with the title "Math for System Administrators", > what would be included? > > And if you think the idea is terrible, I'm interested in hearing that, too. > > Thanks in advance! > > --Matt > > ps - I'll probably crosspost this to a couple of lists. Apologies if you get > it more than once. > > -- > LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? > COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
