All I can say in reply is that I wish that I had had access to the best presentations of the subject matter that interested me when I was young. I learned calcu

All I can say in reply is that I wish that I had had access to the best presentations of the subject matter that interested me when I was young. I learned calculus from some atrocious "IB HL math manual" over a weekend. I would have been grateful to have had a copy of baby Rudin at that time. Many of today's young (especially in rich areas such as SV) now have the privilege of unfettered and instant access to knowledge, and have been spared the horrors of a public school education drawing on sources full of dumbed-down and inaccurate information. I think this culture is gradually forgetting that the acquisition of knowledge is worth struggling for.