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I agree with u on Strang, wonderful lectures. I always learned on books at least a decade or older, I was amazed even the 90s about his lasting legacy. He has been helping people with linear algebra for more than 50 years. I haven’t even been alive for that long.

Weeder courses shouldn’t exist, they are immoral. Glad you survived yours.

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Such an interesting principal to carry, I never thought about it before.

Now that I am, it seems kinder to fail people early out of paths they are ill suited to follow, no?

If it’s something they’re interested in or need to know for their career, then I don’t think it’s possible to be ill-suited, only ill-prepared.

It’s mostly because in free public universities there’s an appetite for making things hard. Very hard. The less students graduate, the most prestigious they think they are

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