is he legit?

[Anonymous No.14696853]

He seems to know what he's talking about. math sorcerer in youtube

[Anonymous No.14696867]

>>14696853
I hope so, Im following his learn all of math video

[Anonymous No.14696883]

>>14696853
Yes but mainly focuses in making motivational videos and insights for brainlet engineers. His book recommendations are legit tho

[Anonymous No.14696892]

For those wondering, his answer is Advanced Calculus.

[Anonymous No.14696903]

>>14696853
I watched one video where he said "it's okay to not understand." Okay... his audience is clearly engineers. This is literally the opposite of how I approached math by understanding each and every detail one tiny step at a time.

The fact this man has gaps everywhere in his mathematical understanding and is now encouraging others to do the same is. His lack of understanding is a liability that breeds even less understanding down the road.

[Anonymous No.14697085]

>>14696853
this guy absolutely hates the thought of being a math major and has put out numerous videos telling his brainlet engineer viewers to never major in math. He is based if only he followed his own advice as now he is larping as a math professor who tells people its okay to not understand things in math

[Anonymous No.14697118]

>>14697085
He is a math professor. I’m unsure if he teaches anything more advanced than freshman and sophomore level classes like ODEs and Linear Algebra.

[Anonymous No.14697204]

>>14696853
he looks exactly what I expect a mathematician to look like

[Anonymous No.14697427]

>>14697204
He looks like a middle age dork

[Anonymous No.14697458]

>>14697204
Now this is a mathematician

[Anonymous No.14697468]

It's pretty rare to find a math professor as empathetic as this guy.

[Anonymous No.14697615]

>>14696883
>His book recommendations are legit tho
yeah.

It would be nice if he would also make some actual math stuff besides first year calculus problems.

[Anonymous No.14697773]

>math sorcerer
>never goes beyond first year undergraduate level
it's very sad.
>>14697468
>>14697118
he's not a professor.

[Anonymous No.14697788]

>>14696892
No, that'd be Number Theory.

[Anonymous No.14697795]

>>14697085
>von neumann tells you it's ok to not understand a maths concept
>OMG LE EPIC BASED
>this guy does the same
>LOL FUCK OFF PSEUD

[Anonymous No.14697801]

>>14697795
not having a deep understanding of a research level topic at the cutting edge level is very different to not understanding something at the undergraduate level, which is foundational to any further study.

[Anonymous No.14697814]

>>14697801
he says it's ok to not understand something meaning that if you get stuck on a concept you should keep going through the textbook or another resource anyway and you will eventually understand the previous concept by being exposed to other ones.
Nobody is saying it's good to never understand how to invert a matrix for the rest of your life or something

[Anonymous No.14697827]

>>14697795
The type of understanding Von Neumann was talking about was probably 1000x times deeper what this guy knows as understanding. And I watched the video; he did not say to understand it by looking at other sources and scouring around. He said it's okay to not understand and move on.

[Anonymous No.14698278]

>>14696853
pretty sure this guy gave me a ginormous whiteboard once upon a time

[Anonymous No.14698287]

>>14697204

[Anonymous No.14700087]

>>14696903
I think he means that it's ok to not get everything immediately and you have to give yourself time to understand things

[Anonymous No.14700093]

>>14696853
Don't care for most of his shit but his vid on the difficulties on self-studying struck a chord with me for sure. I like him for that alone.

[Anonymous No.14702131]

He makes undergrad math videos, and his motivational videos are based on questions and comments received in his site or by emails.
Math sorcerer has a masters and teaches somewhere in Florida. Id put him on the same tier as professor leonard.

[Anonymous No.14703108]

>>14696853
hey! that's the dude that pepper sprayed the bitches in costa mesa

[Anonymous No.14703221]

>>14696853
He's a retard who shills (hundreds of reviews with affiliate links in each description) math books without proofs, with nonsense definitions, and 1000+ pages but very few references to any kind of literature.
>but muh 5000+ exercises with answers in the back
Every 100 is copy and paste, and most are questions about the definition, which is probably ill-stated anyway. Maybe the last 3 problems of each section will be worth solving.
>very readable
A portrait of some urban youths playing baseball that take up 90 percent of the page is not what I would call readable.

[Anonymous No.14703255]

>>14697801
Von Neumann didn't even know some pretty basic topology, he was a pseud which, like many pseuds, gets shilled by Wikipedia because he has a large nose.
>but mut apocrypha
The one video that exists of him shows 0 evidence of any kind of super genius "memorized A tale of two cities word for word" intellect. He also has a semi-strong accent, which tells you that he either didn't put much effort into learning English or he wasn't good at it. Again, if he had such a memory, he could just memorize an accent.
>Look at his published work
From all he published, he seems comparable to many other mathematicians from, the vast majority of his results are small steps forward in fields that many other people contributed to at the time.
Most likely, he stole work (there is evidence of this) and paid other scientists to put his name on papers and (maybe) to talk big about him.

[Anonymous No.14703369]

>>14703255
How many physicists then knew topology and set theory? I doubt even Feynman knew topology. John Nash was friends with Neumann, and when he told Neumann about his discovery that won him the economics nobel prize, Neumann already knew it, but thought it was useless.