You 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 stu

You 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....