Next: in defense of the Schaum outline series ;) love "Indiscrete Thoughts"
Rota's marvellous defence of lectures. "The person lecturing to us was logic incarnate" (on Alonzo Church)pic.twitter.com/3TbUP2ESxa
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Ah, I'd forgotten that - my copy is in storage :-( Yes, loved that one too. He's always interesting.
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Rota is -- by far -- my favorite mathematician
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the first chapter of this book http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/geometry-and-topology/introduction-geometric-probability?format=PB&isbn=9780521596541 … is among the clearest mathematics I've ever read.
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As a former professor I agree lectures can offer much beyond what's in textbooks, but feel this is worst possible example
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"pauses, hesitations, emphases [...] taught us a lot more logic" --> like using an HDTV to send morse code
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