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This is cool, although I thought it was going to be something different.

One of my biggest pet peeves with ADHD trying to work on a Physics/Math degree was the excessive wordiness of books. I generally have a photographic and methodic memory, and so many proofs have tons and tons of words in them.

Oddly enough, I got along best with the older russian professors. I talked with one of my professors about this. I guess most of them had been taught in a much less wordy matter, and taught with even less words because English wasn't their primary language.

There's a few books that have been around forever, and they have a completely different level of readability between the editions. The Churchill/Brown book of Complex Variables and Applications has added something like 100+ pages of wordiness to the book since the 60's edition.



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