if someone would mark all the "important" bits in red, I could. alas, they don't, and drone on and on and on with smattering of important bits thrown in. for

if someone would mark all the "important" bits in red, I could. alas, they don't, and drone on and on and on with smattering of important bits thrown in. for instance, Thomas & Finney's book is what... 2000 pages ? In comparison, Piskunov was something like 200-300 pages IIRC. btw phrase usage is not "good" english - it's in fact an easy tactic to get around it. this is a very obvious in the outputs of Indian state/academia, esp. in the humanities - lots of fancy sounding words/phrases, but very often, zero actual knowledge. some of the judgments of the indian courts, will even make you weep... but i digress. personally, non-generic non-templated emails still take a lot of effort and constant second-guessing. (this took ~5-10m to write, and probably still has grammatical errors and semantics issues).