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by hirako2000 49 days ago
Same here. Bézout also was another mysterious killer.

Concepts coming from french mathematicians were made more obscure just to raise the bar. The irony is, in french Universities.

I recall a student who had enough failing the computer based assessments. He kindly asked the lead lecturer to show us all that he, at least, could land a perfect score. He made the mistake to try, got 8 points out of 20.

He admitted it wasn't easy when not prepared, and moved on with the next mined field.