[Gllug] Maths Books [OFF TOPIC]

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tethys [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> 
> "Jackson, Harry" writes:
> 
> A wise decision. And if there's any justice in this world, UML will be
> long dead before too much longer...

I remember reading about an interview someone had with either Kernighan or
Ritchie and he said that universities should not be teaching applications as
that is the job of the employer, they should be teaching the fundamentals.
When you look around at courses you can see that there are a lot that are
dedicated to flavour of the month topics, although in the tech industry you
could consider 90% of everything being taught flavour of the month. Having
done three subjects that will be out of date themselves in years to come I
decided that I would do maths. It is a subject I enjoy and although it is
not strictly in vogue it is certainly _never_ going to go out of fashion the
way other types of subjects tend to.

 
> >Stroud does go over most of the stuff but his books are very fast and
> >very sparse in explanatory text, if you do not get each step then you
> >are buggered, there is no attempt to see things from any other angle.
> 
> Yep, a valid criticism, I guess. To be fair, I've mostly used 
> his books to brush up on stuff I already knew, and for that, they're 
> great.

I agree, his books are good and I would not put them down for someone who
wants to just brush up on a known subject but I would not recommend them to
start on.

H


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