/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>10537615
>First Semester in grad school
>While the Standard Analysis and Algebra course is an important gatekeeper courses, the true most important course is the Matrix Analysis class
>This is because even if you're shit at standard analysis and abstract algebras, if you know the Jordan canonical form and other advanced topics in linear algebra, you're good to at least churn out a few papers that nobody reads
>Professor was a fucktard that made the class so unendurably hard, 1/2 the class dropped and the other 1/2 essentially ate Fs on both tests and homeworks, including the final.
>Most of us gave up learning the subject as we might be able to walk away with As and Bs in the other two courses
>End of Semester, the fucker passes everyone with a B because he just wants to keep his cushy tenure position and not get any complaints about it
>None of us learned a damn thing besides some rudimentary eiganvalue/vector crap which sabotaged us for the more advanced courses (ODEs, Numerical Analysis ect..)
I think his strategy is to make his course so hard that everyone drops so he can go back to his fucking research in Quaternions in peace