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by evrim 4115 days ago
heh, try teaching galois for a year, you'll understand why calculus is so popular.
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it's a beautiful branch of mathematics though.
everybody thinks they know algebra if they study linear algebra. this is worse than not knowing about calculus i guess.

can't image teaching point-set topology, teaching uryshons proof to undergrads, gee.