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Gilbert Strang reminds us that the best teachers aren't necessarily the ones with the most prestigious awards (though he has plenty of those). The best teachers are the ones who care enough to make the complex simple.

At 89 years old, Prof. Strang is still teaching. For over 60 years at MIT, he has demystified the “boring” parts of math and turned Linear Algebra into the most beautiful subject on earth. gilbert stranf

POV: You finally understand eigenvalues. 🥺 Gilbert Strang reminds us that the best teachers

If you’ve ever used a recommendation algorithm, rendered 3D graphics, or solved for x, you owe this man a thank you. Strang is still teaching

Before Strang, linear algebra was often viewed as a niche, abstract graduate-level subject. Calculus was the king of the undergraduate curriculum. But Strang recognized the shift in the world before almost anyone else: the future belonged to data, computation, and structures.

The GOAT of math education. 🐐📐