A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
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A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
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Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#2Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class.
I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting his lectures out for free -- in fact, I think I'll go donate to them now.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#3Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class. I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting…
+1. Since I took the OCW course, whenever I multiply a matrix and a vector or two matrices by hand, I hear his voice saying, "combinations of columns." Strang must have said those words hundreds of times in it. His lectures stick like nothing else.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#4Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class. I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting…
+1, I was very grateful to MIT OCW because when I learned Linear algebra, I could not have afforded it. Later when I got a job, I donated to OCW and I bought his book full price from his own site [1] just as a tribute to the guy.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#5Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class. I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting…
Of course it is up to you what you do with your money but, they have a $17.5B endowment so there may be more needy causes if you were so inclined.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#6It was a good course I watched it online but I didn't understand much.
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#7Picked up Strang's linear algebra book recently and I'm enjoying it. I've been consistently impressed with the content of MIT books.
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#8I've been doing the Statistics Micromasters from MIT. It's rigorous and very deep. I look forward to doing this.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#9Gilbert Strang's linear algebra course blew my mind back in high school, and I still use insights from it every day. Strang has a particular lecturing style where he approaches every topic several times, often beginning many lectures before the main treatment. At first I thought it was a bit confusing, but later I realized it helped build fluency, just like a language class. I'm really thankful to MIT OCW for putting…
Of course it is up to you what you do with your money but, they have a $17.5B endowment so there may be more needy causes if you were so inclined.
OCW opens up top-notch education to anyone and everyone, regardless of social or economic background. I wouldn’t take it for granted even with MIT’s eye-watering endowment, and I doubt donations to it are going to be paying cafeteria lunches for the students.
I hope you’re donating and actively contributing to many non-profit projects and that your comment comes from being tired of the world’s injustices rather than from callous impertinence, although I suspect it does not.
Re: A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
#10Back in uni (2005), we used Dr. Strang's text for linear algebra. When reading the text, I felt like some down-to-earth professor was trying to explain these difficult topics as simply as possible. I remember discovering mit.edu back then and finding precious video lectures that went along with the book after the course. One of the very few times I was so genuinely happy and excited to watch math lectures online :p