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Here you sit, an undergraduate with a calculus book open before you, or a pre-thesis graduate student with one of those books whose first ten pages, at least, you would like to mas…

They do. You get some in the prose, and then more in the exercises. Learn ____ the hard way.

That is the poetry. When all parts clicks together.

From the preface “You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel. If you zip through a page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast. When you encounter the phra…

Chapter 7 of Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler reads almost as poetry. https://linear.axler.net/

For me, Edward Witten (1), Sheldon Axler (2), Patrick Winston (3) and many others do a far better job. 1. https://youtu.be/UW_M7hotSlk 2. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAnmvB…

200,000,000,000÷30÷24÷60÷60÷119 648 queries/second/location. Obviously not all locations are equal and not all seconds or minutes of the day are. Indeed an impressive scale.

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