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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed: https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... This professor has a gr…

Ah just realized he passed in May 2020 RIP.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Herb Gross! Love that series. Brings me back to my old days. I actually wrote him an email and he wrote back so kindly >> Thank you for taking the time to write to me. It is greatly appreciated. I am extremely pleased that work I did over 40 years ago is now available to help others. I hope you will keep me posted on your progress. I wish I could be more helpful to you. However you might find it a bit strange to know…

Note the above mentioned website no longer works I removed it - I think it may be hacked, not sure what happened to it :(

He died a few years ago, so probably someone else owns the domain now.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube. Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s ju…

ViaScience also has a great playlist on the 'story' of quantum mechanics. I don't have much background in the field or physics in general, but the presentation and explanations in the series are (to the degree possible) followable and an incredible example of straight-forward, no frills, presentation with excellent visualizations. There are long digressions into the actual math and equations as well, though if you're…

That's the one I was searching for. Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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Note the above mentioned website no longer works I removed it - I think it may be hacked, not sure what happened to it :(

He died a few years ago, so probably someone else owns the domain now.

Is it on internet wayback archive?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

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