[danielvaughn]

I was prepared to hate this book as much as I've hated any other "introduction" to math, since I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or explaining things. But the first little section that breaks down set notation into plain english was fantastic. That's exactly the kind of thing I need personally, as notation is extremely off-putting and confusing for me.

[ChainOfFools]

> I've found that mathematicians generally suck at introducing or explaining things.

and then there's Grant Sanderson

[wyager]

I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to describe Sanderson as a contemporary Feynman, at least from the pedagogy side of things.

[Nifty3929]

Perhaps on pedagogy, or at least nice, intuitive, layperson (but technically accurate) explanations of things. And plenty of fully-rigorous explanations of some things too.

I'm a big fan of Sanderson.

But I don't think we can compare Sanderson to Feynman on raw intelligence or contributions to the state of the art in math/science.

[ChainOfFools]

And Feynman himself was characterized by his advisor in a recommendation letter as "another Dirac, but this time human."[0]

[0] paraphrasing from memory, might have been a different supervisory figure.