| ▲ | burnished 2 days ago |
| All I know is that when a class starts with 'elementary' or 'fundamentals of' you had best buckle up. |
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| ▲ | quchen 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Algebraic too. There's also the opposite in physics though, "modern" means from the 60s with square roots drawn in manually. |
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| ▲ | TeMPOraL 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | Nevermark 2 days ago | parent [-] | | That's code for 101. | | |
| ▲ | TeMPOraL 2 days ago | parent [-] | | No. It's code for the thickest, densest book on the subject that you're ever gonna not read, as it actually assumes you're experienced in the subject and goes into everything except intro level topics. See e.g. Petzold, et al. | | |
| ▲ | mr_mitm 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm getting flashbacks to Spivak, who wrote a 2000 page "introduction" to differential geometry. | | |
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