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Rand al'Thor

8:07 AM

@CDR Congrats on 3k reputation!

@Tsundoku Lang, yes - they're good books, as far as I know. Leithold, never heard of him or the book.

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b_jonas

10:52 AM

@Tsundoku I have not seen any of these books.

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Eng Lit Learner

11:53 AM

Q: meaning of the sentence in bold is uncler to me

As he walked through the dark night he was overwhelmed by an urge to escape from his present mental state. Thoroughly weak, agitated, unstable, anxious; seriously wanting in courage and bereft of any largeness of spirit —this was how he came to see himself. Oppressed by something that weighed dow...

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Tsundoku

1:21 PM

@Randal'Thor Louis Leithold was the mentor of Jaime Escalante, who was the subject of the film Stand and Deliver. Leithold's calculus supposedly changed how calculus was taught.

I am currently working through Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics to refresh things I have forgotten since school. It's like a compact precalculus book; it seems to be a bit more selective than the massive precalculus textbooks that are currently on the market. (I don't know whether the term "precalculus" is even used in the UK.)

@DLosc I thought Swift had invented HNQ, which looks like the abbreviation of "Houyhnhnms Neighing Quizzically".

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Bookworm

9:32 PM

Q: Are concepts also considered literary themes?

According to one Wikipedia definition, themes encompass recurring ideas or motifs, representing concepts with multiple instantiations. Understanding concepts as fundamental units of thought involves quantification and categorization of knowledge. Concepts, serving as mental entities, are formed t...