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Really cool! This is the sorta thing that, just yesterday, I wished existed. And it's already on the HN frontpage. It's hard to see the forest for the trees in many math books, a bird's eye view is a really valuable perspective.

I highly appreciate this approach: "As i have ranted about before, linear algebra is done wrong by the extensive use of matrices to obscure the structure of a linear map. Similar problems occcur with multivariable calculus, so here I would like to set the record straight"

Math education and textbooks are doing an awesome job obscuring simple ideas by focusing on weird details and bad notation. Always good to see people trying to counter this :)





Sheldon Axler's book is the common (now decades old) example of a book doing linear maps first.



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