> Too Much Calculus Not for me! Heck, I never took freshman calculus or pre-calculus and, instead read a book and started on sophomore calculus then continue

> Too Much Calculus Not for me! Heck, I never took freshman calculus or pre-calculus and, instead read a book and started on sophomore calculus then continued with, right, ordinary differential equations, advanced calculus for applications, and advanced calculus, topology, modern analysis, measure theory, functional analysis, exterior algebra, etc. Not enough calculus for me! Strang, of course, is emphasizing linear algebra. Great! It's terrific stuff. I had an abstract algebra course that started on vector spaces and matrix theory. Then I got famous book from Princeton on multi-variable calculus and read the first chapters on linear algebra, e.g., learned Gram-Schmidt. Then I got a linear algebra book and read a few chapters and applied them to some problems in classical mechanics. Then I wrote my math honors paper in group representation theory, right, more linear algebra. The out of school, I wanted to know linear algebra better and read a good book cover to cover, carefully. Then I got Halmos, Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces and read it cover to cover. Wrote Halmos about his proof of the Hamelton-Cayley theorem and got back a nice answwer! Then I got another famous text on multi-variable calculus and read it cover to cover, including the parts on exterior algebra. Then I did that again from Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds -- right, a lot of both calculus and linear algebra. Then I got Forsythe and Moler, Computer Solution of Linear Algebraic Systems, read it cover to cover, directed a project in interval arithmetic for linear algebra, took a course in numerical analysis with a lot of linear algebra for solution of partial differential equations, e.g., iterative solutions (Gauss-Seidel) and wrote corresponding code. I also used linear algebra in work with the fast Fourier transform, multi-variate statistics, and more. For more on linear algebra, I read the first part, linear algebra, of von Neumann, Quantum Mechanics. From a world class guy in linear algebra, I took an advanced course in linear algebra -- by then the course was beneath me and I led the class by a wide margin. Favorite theorem -- the polar decomposition. Read Coddington's book on differential equations -- gorgeous book. The combination of linear algebra and calculus, with other math, continued. At one time a little calculus did a lot: The initial value problem for the little first order, linear ordinary differential equation y'(t) = k y(t) ( b - y(t) ) saved FedEx, that is, kept it from going out of business. So, useful calculus! So, sure, I like linear algebra and like the combination! I definitely do not see that I had too much calculus! Here's what I saw, and still fume about: All I could get in chemistry was one too simple course in high school and one too simple course in college. All I could get in physics was one too simple course. I college, by the time I got to Maxwell's equations, I didn't know enough calculus to do really well. In college I never got math enough to do well with quantum mechanics. But in grades 9-12 and then in the first two years of college, I was force fed like a goose with six years of English literature, with each year yet another play by Shakespeare. I agree that there was a good writer in England in the 1600s -- Newton! So it was also Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, ..., Dickens, the great natural order (all corresponding theorems and proofs omitted!), etc. With good information about people? Nope. Then there was history: It never got to the 20th century. It never touched on technology, economics, or any other causes. There was plenty of time in history courses; it's just that the courses didn't have much content. If my startup works, then I'll get back to more in calculus, functional analysis, stochastic processes, and mathematical physics. "More calculus, Ma!".