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starcraft2wol on Nov 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching diffe...

> people continue to find new and better ways to explain and illustrate concepts

I strongly disagree. All the best math and CS books I have are old.

New books about old topics tend to be less informed about the context and core ideas that led to their development.

da39a3ee on Nov 13, 2023 [–]

Then you are objectively wrong. Look at Grant Sanderson's explanation of introductory Linear Algebra. Very obviously it adds something good to complement the best paper textbooks on the subject.

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