in a fit of frustration earlier at the library, i realized for the n-millionth time that math textbooks suck. they’re just awful. they’re ugly. they use fonts like impact. they’re bad at explaining things. looking stuff up is either cheap and mindless, or a 10+ minute hunt through over-explanations. for the most part, mathematicians are bad at communicating with non-mathematicians. but publishers also make these things very easy to hate. it’s probably a big reason why people hate math, too. it’s not that the math is boring and makes no sense, it’s that most (no, not all) of the people explaining it to you are boring and make no sense.
i am going to write these textbooks one day if it kills me. but until i get a Ph.D., all i’ve got is a BFA. so redesigning the books i own and hate to look at is about all i can do for now.
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