Gilbert Strang has this lovely patrician, avuncular energy that puts me at ease. I feel like he's as likely to pour me a cup of tea as he is to expound on matri

Gilbert Strang has this lovely patrician, avuncular energy that puts me at ease. I feel like he's as likely to pour me a cup of tea as he is to expound on matrices. He feels less like an MIT professor and more like a shared pedagogical treasure of our internet age.