By JUSTIN POPE/
Saturday, December 29, 2007; 10:06 PM
The Associated Press
-- Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others
understand linear algebra. He's written a half-dozen popular college
textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite
Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his
course.
Recently, with the growth of computer science, demand to understand
linear algebra has surged. But so has the number of students Strang can
teach.
An MIT initiative called "OpenCourseWare" makes virtually all the
school's courses available online for free _ lecture notes, readings,
tests and often video lectures. Strang's Math 18.06 course is among the
most popular, with visitors downloading his lectures more than 1.3
million times since June alone...
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