Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "This Math Book Will Change Your Life Forever" video.

  1. This textbook was used in my Calculus course in 1970. I have a first edition of the textbook. I should get a more recent edition. Spivak shares a characteristic among the great mathematicians who made mathematics more teachable and accessible to more people The current notation we use for the calculus is due to Leonard Euler, of Euler's Constant fame, who founded entire branches of mathematics, in particular graph theory which is the foundation of topology . Spivak is a working topologist. Euler was a genuinely kind and pleasant person, a characteristic that Spivak shares. I have this on good authority as my college roommate took a summer math course from Spivak. Also, my college roommate told me that Spivak drove a VW beetle and adored Bach and jokes about Yellow Pig, who is the Y. P. referred to in the dedication to this book.
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  2. You failed to explain who "Y.P." in the dedication. Y. P. is Yellow Pig.
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