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I was prepared to hate this book as much as I've hated any other "introduction" to math, since I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or e
by danielvaughn 3y ago
I was prepared to hate this book as much as I've hated any other "introduction" to math, since I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or explaining things. But the first little section that breaks down set notation into plain english was fantastic. That's exactly the kind of thing I need personally, as notation is extremely off-putting and confusing for me.
- ChainOfFools 3y ago> I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or explaining things. and then there's Grant Sanderson
- wyager 3y agoI don't think it's much of an exaggeration to describe Sanderson as a contemporary Feynman, at least from the pedagogy side of things.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoAnd Feynman himself was characterized by his advisor in a recommendation letter as "another Dirac, but this time human."[0] [0] paraphrasing from memory, might have been a different supervisory figure.
- Nifty3929 3y agoPerhaps on pedagogy, or at least nice, intuitive, layperson (but technically accurate) explanations of things. And plenty of fully-rigorous explanations of some things too. I'm a big fan of Sanderson. But I don't think we can compare Sanderson to Feynman on raw intelligence or contributions to the state of the art in math/science.