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Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by generationP »

newprint wrote: post #18

There is a great book published in Russian "ЗАДАЧИ И ТЕОРЕМЫ ЛИНЕЙНОЙ АЛГЕБРЫ" (Problems and theorems in linear algebra), by Victor V. Prasolov. English translation was done by American Mathematical Society. Unfortunately, this translation is for the first edition of the book. Latest edition is available for free: http://prasolov.loegria.net/linalg.pdf (hint is you want to print it out, Amazon printing service is gre…

I think this is not actually the newest edition; that is available on https://sites.google.com/site/prasolovskacatmoiknigi/home .

It's a great book, though for a completely different audience than Strang. It collects hundreds of apocryphal results from 400 years of linear algebra, most with proofs, some fairly deep.

Here's the English 1st edition: https://staff.math.su.se/mleites/books/prasolov-1994-problem...

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by OJFord »

OJFord wrote: post #6

That's Gil for Gilbert, not GIL for, idk, Python's Global Interpretor Lock or something.

Because this has suddenly gone from +something to -4 I want to point out that when I wrote it, the submitted title was 'GIL Strang [...]'; so it made a lot more sense (and the title didn't)...

It'd be nice if a title change afforded a possibility to edit/delete comments, or if mods doing so would scan the comments for anything about them.

(I recently had a very old tweet liked and retweeted by someone I mentioned in it, that I can't make head or tails of - I can only assume the account is now owned by someone else - so I'm a bit sensitive to it...)

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by mindcrime »

qersist3nce wrote: post #24

Thanks Prof Strang. Are there any "side channels" that host university lecture videos and course materials for less fortunate students in 3rd world countries? The ones on MIT courseware or Youtube are old. I mean something along the lines of academic torrents etc...

Huh? There's new university lecture videos being added to Youtube all the time, so I don't know why you'd say everything there is old. Besides, for many (most?) subjects it doesn't matter if the videos are old or not. Something like, eg Linear Algebra, just doesn't change that much.

All of that said, one other option you might check out is videolectures.net[1]. There's some pretty good stuff there.

[1]: http://videolectures.net/

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by vondur »

newprint wrote: post #18

There is a great book published in Russian "ЗАДАЧИ И ТЕОРЕМЫ ЛИНЕЙНОЙ АЛГЕБРЫ" (Problems and theorems in linear algebra), by Victor V. Prasolov. English translation was done by American Mathematical Society. Unfortunately, this translation is for the first edition of the book. Latest edition is available for free: http://prasolov.loegria.net/linalg.pdf (hint is you want to print it out, Amazon printing service is gre…

Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by dustingetz »

vondur wrote: post #34
newprint wrote: post #18

There is a great book published in Russian "ЗАДАЧИ И ТЕОРЕМЫ ЛИНЕЙНОЙ АЛГЕБРЫ" (Problems and theorems in linear algebra), by Victor V. Prasolov. English translation was done by American Mathematical Society. Unfortunately, this translation is for the first edition of the book. Latest edition is available for free: http://prasolov.loegria.net/linalg.pdf (hint is you want to print it out, Amazon printing service is gre…

Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?

omg https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834340

ah crap no pdf

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by deepzn »

OJFord wrote: post #32
OJFord wrote: post #6

That's Gil for Gilbert, not GIL for, idk, Python's Global Interpretor Lock or something.

Because this has suddenly gone from +something to -4 I want to point out that when I wrote it, the submitted title was 'GIL Strang [...]'; so it made a lot more sense (and the title didn't)... It'd be nice if a title change afforded a possibility to edit/delete comments, or if mods doing so would scan the comments for anything about them. (I recently had a very old tweet liked and retweeted by someone I mentioned in…

Yes, thanks edited it after seeing your comment.

Re: Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am

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Post by frakt0x90 »

caddemon wrote: post #26
MisterBastahrd wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a feeling that the intellect gap at a lot of universities isn't as profound as one would expect and that one of the reasons that the students of the best unis do so well is because their educators can actually explain the course material. You can do more when you've got to spend less cognitive energy on trying to piece together the hieroglyphic puzzle that lesser professors throw at you because they believe th…

A lot of the top universities have majority of their profs caring almost exclusively about research though. I think MIT is (or at least was) a bit of an exception, where there was enough of a critical mass of profs that cared about teaching. Can't say the same for a couple other "top" unis I've spent time at.

Yes I've heard that as well. For example I heard 2nd hand that Andrew Wiles at Princeton, who famously solved Fermat's last theorem, is a brilliant researcher but a terrible professor.

I had a math professor from Dartmouth who told me that Dartmouth really emphasized teaching in their phd program and he was indeed an exceptional teacher. I wish that was emphasized more, or they separate hardcore researchers from the teachers.

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