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Introduction
This book is the culmination of eight years and five hundred thousand plus lines of coding.
The following book covers eight years of work to build the MathCelebrity website. Topics include programming, website building, sales, marketing, and corporate politics. This book is split into two parts - the website story followed by a large book of math formulas and shortcuts. The website story is structured in three parts - what, why, and how.
1. What motivated me to build MathCelebrity?
2. Why did I build MathCelebrity?
3. How did I build MathCelebrity?
The title "One Second Math" is the culmination of my ultimate goal - building an automated math tutor to solve math problems in one second or less.
One Second Math comes from an article I read about the human eye. It takes one-third of one second to blink. Blinking is both rapid and automatic. Rapid and automatic is exactly how I built MathCelebrity. I rounded up the blinking time to one second, and voila, I found my book title.
Origins
Picture the most boring job imaginable. Next, picture having to fill out a form before you do any kind of work. Even if you have a great year, your average raise is a measly 5%. No thanks. Instead, it's time to branch out. Find other ways of making money. What if you found a way to make money, and only spent a few hours a week?
Lightning Strike in India
What if you worked a job you hated? But at the same time, you found a way to reach a potential few thousand customers across the world? Now, what if the way to reach those customers, came from that same job you hated? Oh, the beauty of irony.
Building Bricks
Daylighting
Have you ever wondered how to work a side business
while you are at your day job?
Momentum Through Clustering
Artificial Intellgence
How exactly does a computer answer math problems?
REGEX: A Massive Undertaking
Fractals, Forums, Fresh Air
The Quick and The Dead
Not the movie, but similar. You see, speed wins many battles. And it's one of the reasons we get 300,000 monthly visitors. Because the only thing better than math tutoring on a platter is math tutoring in one second or less.
Quizzes and Other Features
Meet the Public
Stepping out from our cold, quiet basement to meet people face to face.
Postconferece Highs and Lows
Marketing Crash Course
It doesn't matter how good your product is, if nobody knows about it.
School Struggles
Homeschool Love
I have a special place in my heart for homeschoolers
Common Core: The Scourge of Math
Personal Homework Help
Homework Mastermind
The ultimate in math tutoring. Get the personal phone number and chat address of the MathCelebrity programmer himself. Any time you need math help, just call. Because there is strength in numbers.
An Unexpected New Line of Business
Thanks for your help in math. Now I need you to help me in something else!
How to get 200,000 Monthly Visitors: My Free Traffic Formula
What if you had a website - and you were given the secret to get 200,000 monthly visitors to your website. But even better, you didn't spend a dime to do this. Even better than that, you found a trick to listen to your website visitors and find out what else they wanted.
Ignoring Inner Voices Leads to Stupid Choices
It's tough work building a website smart enough to answer math problems.
User Testing: The Cold Punch of Reality
Redesign
It doesn't matter if you have a Ferrari Engine if the paint job is rusted
The State of Math: Putting the M in STEM
But how does math help me in the real world? If only you knew how much extra money you earn if you focused on problem solving.
Epilogue
Part 2: Study Notes, Tips, and Tricks
You could, in theory, buy this book in second grade, and use it for math all the way through college.
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