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I have Artin’s Algebra on my bookshelf, most people who see it always tell me they took it in high school. I’m always impressed.
by gxs 5y ago
I have Artin’s Algebra on my bookshelf, most people who see it always tell me they took it in high school. I’m always impressed.
- alexdowad 5y agoFunny stuff. I remember reading a comment by Professor Terry Tao, where he mentioned that one of his weaker areas of mathematics is "algebra". I guess he should have paid more attention in 9th grade math classes!
- nicklaf 5y agoYou know for a few confused seconds I didn't see the joke about the title and took your statement literally, assuming you were talking about some precocious student, who perhaps had been lucky enough to be tutored or concurrently enrolled while still in high school. Funny story, though: this is the upper division algebra text we used at UC Davis, and one amusing anecdote that our professor relayed was that this book was in fact written for MIT freshmen. Supposedly, this is why the book introduces linear algebra from scratch rather than assuming it as a prerequisite....
- gxs 5y agoYep, this is the text the professor used in my abstract algebra class at UC Berkeley. I know they use a bunch of other ones. I definitely wouldn’t have been ready to take this as a freshman - my high school math education was definitely lacking.