[dustycat]

I am curious how many people the author has taught mathematics to.

It doesn't seem a good idea to jump into writing a textbook teaching mathematics unless one has experience of teaching mathematics.

But the author makes the very point about early failures of programming, due to lack of experience, so perhaps he can supply information about what his pedagogical experience consists of.

Teaching other people is a craft, similar to programming or mathematics, with its own necessities.

[j2kun]

It's a good question, and sort of hard to balance. I don't have any formal training as a teacher, or really a _pedagogy_ per se. I did teach five years of discussion sections among calculus, python programming, and differential equations. I do guest lectures for high school math classes, volunteered with groups like Black Girls Code and Hour of Code. I also did years of tutoring-center style tutoring, which meant I worked with students from the entire math curriculum. One time I even did an impromptu linear algebra course for a group of co-interns when I worked at MIT Lincoln Lab.

So in terms of number of people face to face, somewhere in the low thousands seems right. In terms of writing, my blog has on the order of millions of all-time page views.

I think it's a stretch to call the book a textbook. I think of it as an O'Reilly-type general technical book, but for math. If someone uses it to teach a course, that would be pretty wild, and I'd feel honored.

Hope you enjoy it :)

[jacobolus]

Apparently he was a TA as a math PhD student at UIC. Now is a programmer working at Google. He wrote a bunch of posts on his website over the years, https://jeremykun.com/main-content/

[mcguire]

His blog has appeared here before and I've found it well written.