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jfarmer
on Aug 28, 2013
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What is algebra?
I majored in mathematics at the University of Chicago and Spivak's
Calculus
was my first-year calculus textbook. It confirmed what I had long believed: what I was being taught in high school wasn't really mathematics.
The book might seem very alien at first, though.
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The book might seem very alien at first, though.