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I think it's just familiarity. Those are the books where you learned the stuff. So their way (style) is 'what you have been programmed to like'. to learn any
by GeorgeTirebiter 5y ago
I think it's just familiarity. Those are the books where you learned the stuff. So their way (style) is 'what you have been programmed to like'.
to learn anything, so you can teach it to somebody else (the REAL def of Learning I'd say), you have to Do The Exercises.
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I recently went over one of my older books on Matrices and it was a curious mix of trying to be sort-of precise, with trying to bring the 'wonder' and 'magic' of the concepts to life early -- so as to maintain reader interest. Ultimately, it was the way of thinking (mathematically) that was mostly taught; the 'matrix intro' was just fodder to support the pedagogy!
- ericbarrett 5y agoMost of the advanced math I learned used textbooks from the early 2000s era, which were often junk; this was the beginning of the "new book every year" phase of universities, one which they seem to have never left. (What I did retain was usually taught by lectures or compassionate fellow students.) My multivariable calculus book was recalled by the publisher mid-semester! One of the more talented kids got so pissed off at its quality that he went through the whole thing and ended up finding several hundred calculation errors in it (not typos or typesetting).