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Completely agree. I've taken the liberty of taking a quick snap of a random page in "Arithmetic for the Practical Man" to include below for those poor people p

by setq 9y ago

Completely agree. I've taken the liberty of taking a quick snap of a random page in "Arithmetic for the Practical Man" to include below for those poor people poisoned by modern textbooks: http://i.imgur.com/Bg9OiiK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Bg9OiiK.jpg (926KiB) I see horrible modern behemoths of over a 1000 pages that leave you dazed, confused and full of facts but nowhere to go with them. EE textbooks are even worse on this front than your average mathematics text book. I've seen one proudly promoting over 1500 pages and 1000 illustrations, but doesn't even get as far as an opamp or discuss anything at system level.

tszyn 9y ago
Nice, simple, intuitive proofs. Very cool.
novalis78 9y ago
bought the series as well, love it. It's my daughter's favorite math series. One interesting thing I noticed in this regard is textbooks from the 30-60s have way more textual descriptions. They seem to spend more time looking at the problem or concept in a literary way and that might have helped to build a better understanding for the student.