Show HN: I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it (teachyourselfmath.app)

5 points by viveknathani_ ↗ HN
Good math problems are hidden inside textbooks and online documents. To keep up with all the sources in the world is hard. For someone who just wants to continuously solve problems, finding and going through all the sources feels like a hassle. I wished for a website that could just dump all the math problems available in the world out there. And if I could filter the problems by topics, that would be beautiful.

teachyourselfmath is a side project that was born out of this need. At its core, it is a math PDF extraction engine. The engine has some machine learning going on behind the scenes to extract math problems in LaTeX from any image or document.

A little bit about me: I am Vivek, a software engineer based out of India with a diverse set of interests including math. This project is close to my heart for many different reasons and nothing would make me happier than finding people on the internet who would find this website to be useful.

I’d love to hear your feedback on this. Thanks!

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I think each problem should link to the source it was extracted from, in order to provide additional context and potentially a way to check one's solution.

(Personally, I'm not going to use this because my days of grinding problems are over. Now I just learn whatever math I need on the fly when I need it.)

Yes, sources for problems will come out soon! However, I picture the comment section of the problem's page to be a place where people discuss and post their solutions/thoughts.

Thanks for the feedback!