Seems like a solid resource. In case others were wondering which courses were what - there's an index here http://abel.math.harvard.edu/pamphlets/courses.html
Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
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Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#12The mod probably should put back the word math in the title
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#13From the authors website... "These notes are of pretty poor quality, since with I was lost with high probability when I wrote them"
At a glance, they look pretty good to me. If I had taken notes of that quality when I was a graduate student in mathematics forty years ago, maybe I would have become a mathematician after all.
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#14You can take 11 modules in one semester? How do you do that? Even assuming they are all 2h per week, do you have to look at the academic calender (or timetable) and try to find all courses which dont overlap?
Perhaps they're shorter modules than usual? That does seem pretty intense to me
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#15The mod probably should put back the word math in the title
Mods changing titles and links has always seemed sort of arbitrary to me. Most of the time I don't see the use (I understand it can be useful, but the times I've seen it done it usually hasn't).
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#16From the authors website... "These notes are of pretty poor quality, since with I was lost with high probability when I wrote them"
That does raise the question though as to why the notes have garnered enough attention to necessitate such a comment from the author. Maybe it isn't a good idea to use these notes as reference, but they are of some value. At the very least it is interesting to see that such a large repository of notes of this form exists. The only other collection that is similar to this that I know of is https://dec41.user.srcf.net/…
Thanks for linking to such a great resource. I am somewhat awed by how much he has learned in his undergrad years.
Also, thanks to other posters too. The two other notes sites are also great.
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#17Anyone seen something like this for medicine? I'd look to show my daughter that wants to be a medic...
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#18Anyone seen something like this for medicine? I'd look to show my daughter that wants to be a medic...
There is tons and tons of great content on sites like Youtube (search for what you want: anatomy, neurology, physiology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, statistics,...) or courses on edx or Coursera (mostly free without the useless "certificates"). Never mind even more sites Google will show you.
Some of it dumbed down, but lots of it is from professionals and lecturers for actual medical students. I won't post examples because there really is so much that it's useless for me to do so, apart from pointing out the sites I used myself.
On another note, I continue to be amazed by the fact that so often I see people asking in forums instead of Google. It shows how important humans are to humans, no matter what service machines will offer, or how great recorded content is, live content from/with an actual human will be preferred to a large degree.
Just yesterday in some forum somebody asked a question to find a certain novel. I copy-pasted his exact question into Google and found the novel immediately. This is quite common. Is this a topic of discussion at companies like Google? No matter the automation, a lot of humans are very reluctant to interact with the machine(s). It seems to me this is quite an obstacle for companies on the business of putting machines in front of customers instead of humans.
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#19It may not seem obvious to everyone, but the value is taking the notes (helps learning significantly), not reading them without context after the fact.
People who are interested in learning a subject without attending lectures would be better served by a textbook in the field.
Re: Notes for courses taken at Harvard (2015-2019)
#20Does anyone have adequate resources to share on learning Math "from scratch"? I must shamefully admit that anything beyond the basic symbols is entirely foreign to me.