Math professor reimagines the 'math book' as a self-repairing, auto-updating GitHub repo
prof_g · x · 2026-10-14
Math professor profg muses on what a future "math book" should be: heavy on graphics, with interactive elements (e.g. GPT Sites), dynamic references that auto-update multiple times a year, and self-repairing to fix errors — not paper, not a PDF, maybe a GitHub repo.
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