Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

hgsgm wrote: post #3

Clickbait title > Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — for 66 years.

What's the click bait part? The part you quoted? The first sentence of the article is:

> After 63 years teaching and over 10 million views on his online lectures...

Is the difference of his three years as a student too much to overlook?

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Post by placesalt » Tue, May 23, 2023, 2:00 AM UTC

Strang's OCW lectures on linear algebra are excellent. From a distance, he truly seems like a professor that was at least as interested in educating the next generation as he was making his own discoveries.

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Post by i2cmaster » Tue, May 23, 2023, 2:03 AM UTC

I used to listen to Strang's lectures to go to sleep at night. It helped a ton when I got to college and took an advanced Linear Algebra course. I don't think his influence on the world can be overstated.

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Post by jtuple » Tue, May 23, 2023, 2:12 AM UTC

jjice wrote: post #5

hgsgm wrote: post #3

Clickbait title > Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — for 66 years.

What's the click bait part? The part you quoted? The first sentence of the article is: > After 63 years teaching and over 10 million views on his online lectures... Is the difference of his three years as a student too much to overlook?

I suppose GP is using clickbait in the looser sense that the title omits info (the professor's name) and thus invites a click; rather than the more common use of clickbait to label titles that are exaggerated, misleading, or "one-weird-trickey".

Granted, titles can't contain a full articles worth of facts, so omitted info is always expected; but omitting primary subject's name does lean somewhat reader-hostile (IMO).

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Post by LTL_FTC » Tue, May 23, 2023, 2:15 AM UTC

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

Re: Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture

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Post by justin66 » Tue, May 23, 2023, 2:18 AM UTC

LTL_FTC wrote: post #9

Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter. Feel like this is tradition, no?

> Unless they were absolutely terrible, professors received a standing ovation at the end of the quarter.

I guess I'll be the first one to point out that I never witnessed anything like that.