I had the fortune of taking 18.06 (Linear Algebra) from Gilbert Strang around the time of this essay. And like other commenters, I will agree that he was a ver

I had the fortune of taking 18.06 (Linear Algebra) from Gilbert Strang around the time of this essay. And like other commenters, I will agree that he was a very good teacher. I could tell that he held a great emotional attachment to matrices; he'd often anthropomorphize them with genders and refer to them as "little guys".