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All I know is that when a class starts with 'elementary' or 'fundamentals of' you had best buckle up.
by burnished 5mo ago
All I know is that when a class starts with 'elementary' or 'fundamentals of' you had best buckle up.
- TeMPOraL 5mo agoIntroduction to ...
- Nevermark 5mo agoThat's code for 101.
- TeMPOraL 5mo agoNo. It's code for the thickest, densest book on the subject that you're ever gonna not read, as it actually assumes you're experienced in the subject and goes into everything except intro level topics. See e.g. Petzold, et al.
- mr_mitm 5mo agoI'm getting flashbacks to Spivak, who wrote a 2000 page "introduction" to differential geometry.
- reikonomusha 5mo agoTo be fair to Spivak, he did say it was comprehensive introduction. :)
- quchen 5mo agoAlgebraic too. There's also the opposite in physics though, "modern" means from the 60s with square roots drawn in manually.