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That article was really a great refresher on something I barely remember from undergraduate courses. I'm left a little unfazed about the style of prose, but I g
by leblancfg 10y ago
That article was really a great refresher on something I barely remember from undergraduate courses. I'm left a little unfazed about the style of prose, but I guess that's the price you have to pay for dat dankness, yo.
- acqq 10y agoYes, I liked the content in spite of the "trolling," since there is enough of actual math, the author actually knows the field and it is presented simple enough to make the math path enjoyable. I'm sure it would work good even with less or no "trolling." It is possible to make the approachable text even without the jokes based on misinformation. I see the author made the book with that in the title, so it was obviously a selling point for him, but the quite clear approach to the math material (when he reader manages to ignore the trolling) is actually good. I have nothing against the funny presentation of the actual biographical facts however. The misinformation is, however, problematic. The author even states in the foreword that he "hopes that some of those will appear in Wikipedia." Unfortunately, it really can happen.