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by GuyOnMySpace 2395 days ago
I finished this recently, and ended up with a mixed-but-overall-negative view.

As someone who had a reasonable aptitude for mathematics in the past but essentially no practice in the last 10 years, it seemed like the content varied wildly in how well it built on previous chapters, or more generally adhered to the "introduction" label. The programming-based content was thin to the point of being pretty much irrelevant, leaving the whole as something more like a scatter-brained textbook for an odd curriculum rather than a refocused version of a sensible one.