[HN Gopher] He made linear algebra fun
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He made linear algebra fun
Author : bikenaga
Score : 127 points
Date : 2023-06-02 17:23 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| the__alchemist wrote:
| This dude taught the Lin alg courses that went on MitX. Super
| good!
| sgift wrote:
| That brings me back. Strang probably saved my computer science
| degree. That professor I had in linear algebra and me really
| couldn't communicate and without Strangs lectures (to his credit,
| my professor recommended them) I wouldn't have stood a chance.
|
| Thanks, professor. And enjoy your well-earned retirement.
| strikelaserclaw wrote:
| i aced linear algebra even though i didn't attend many classes
| because i always watched strang's lectures.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| I aced lin algebra because I realized early the potential and
| ran home after every lecture and worked on a 3d engine
| incorporating most concepts.
| omgmajk wrote:
| I just watched that video in the article of his last lecture and
| it was indeed fun!
| bluenose69 wrote:
| I really appreciated the sentence following the title, because I
| was thinking this would be an obituary. And, to make things
| better, there's an informative and very sweet video interview
| with him at the end of the article. Even in that, he takes a
| didactic approach, teaching other teachers how to teach.
|
| Whether one likes or dislikes mathematics, it's hard to argue
| that he was anything but captivating in the classroom.
| bkartal wrote:
| Gil needs to be remembered as one of the key people that helped
| AI developments behind the scenes by having students master
| linear algebra! I hope you enjoy your retirement in health and
| peace!
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| Never took his courses but used his book. My linear algebra
| teacher was awesome. The two changed my life.
| infocollector wrote:
| He is a legend in linear algebra, and probably will be for a long
| time. His video lectures have proven invaluable, benefiting
| millions.
| levzettelin wrote:
| If math it fun, you're doing it wrong.
| l33t233372 wrote:
| As someone with graduate level math experience and many friends
| in mathematics grad school, I know what you mean, but it
| definitely depends on your idea of fun.
|
| You have to enjoy bashing your head against a problem for a
| dozen hours. Or to be more precise, you have to enjoy the
| feeling of solving such a hard problem sufficiently much to
| find math fun.
| Errancer wrote:
| what? i feel like it is completely opposite; per the "A
| Mathematician's Lament" essay
| kiechu wrote:
| The same with spelling.
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| MIT's profs Strang and the late professor Winston have positively
| changed my life. I knew it was him from the title and was worried
| he ... yeah.
| imbusy111 wrote:
| I remember watching his lectures 17 years ago online when I was a
| teenager. That was the first online course I've done and it was
| on MIT OpenCourseWare.
|
| Then, when I was actually getting a math degree years later in
| Manchester, UK, I got the highest score on the linear algebra
| exam out of all the classes I did. I doubt I would have done so
| well without Strang.
| beyonddream wrote:
| I have listened to his lectures but found it hard to follow his
| train of thoughts and pace and I am sure I am in the minority :).
| What worked somewhat is listening to 2x speed.
| perihelions wrote:
| 51 more comments here
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038635
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
|
| _Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his
| last lecture_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038635 -
| May 2023 (51 comments)
|
| _A thank you to Gilbert Strang, retiring after his 61-year
| long teaching career_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35981340 - May 2023 (1
| comment)
|
| _Gilbert Strang 's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921538 - May 2023 (56
| comments)
|
| _Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382337 - Feb 2020 (91
| comments)
|
| _Gilbert Strang 's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now
| Online_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939030 - May
| 2019 (23 comments)
|
| _Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and
| Machine Learning_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19933274 - May 2019 (21
| comments)
|
| _Strang 's "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data" is printed
| and available_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18862719
| - Jan 2019 (22 comments)
|
| _A conversation with Gilbert Strang [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048316 - Sept 2018 (19
| comments)
|
| _Too Much Calculus - Gilbert Strang (2001) [pdf]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189553 - March 2015 (134
| comments)
|
| _Calculus by Gilbert Strang_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=343332 - Oct 2008 (3
| comments)
| kiechu wrote:
| Strang course is available on YT as part of MIT OCW. Amazing
| lecturer.
| linster wrote:
| I know this article is about Strang from the context of his
| retirement a few weeks ago, but the title is clickbait.
| b33j0r wrote:
| Given other trending headlines, I thought he'd died. The past
| tense thing.
| mb7733 wrote:
| I guessed this was about Strang just from the title! I hadn't
| heard about his retirement.
| stavros wrote:
| I saw the title, and thought "the only person I can think of
| that this applies to is Gilbert Strang". Imagine my surprise
| when it was actually him, when I haven't thought of him or
| linear algebra for fifteen years.
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