Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Lec 1 | MIT 18.03 Differential Equations, Spring 2006" video.

This is amazing: this is the only guy on the entire Internet who says "let's get started" at the start. Most people don't say it until about ten minutes in.
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Ken Ya Ken, I was pretty impressed all around. I don't think it's so much tedious as tough, and this guy gives me some faith that I might be able to get through it this time. I thought that not fucking around with the "let's get started" being a meaningless formula, but actually meaning it, like he's getting started, ws a good sign, and he actually carries through pretty well, I thought. Your mileage may vary: my theory is that differential equations are ike languages. I wish I'd learned them a whole lot earlier. It's so much easier before about your seventh birthday! :-) -dlj.
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Ken Ya Ken, (Later) Looking around I see there a set of YouTubes for this same course, 18.03, in 2011, and another one that may be interesting, I don't know yet, 18.09, "Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues" in 2011. This last one is slugged as Linear Algebra in some places but on the first page of the course it talks a bit about differential equations. Anyway, over the long haul I need all of Linear, all of Eigen, and all of Differential, But you might want to check out the availables. Let me know what you think. -dlj.
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sebastianzx6r Sebastian, I imagine it's mostly nervousness. They're partly impressed by what a wonderful thing it is to be "on TV" and nervous about being exposed to people they can't tell to shut up or glare at. This guy just knows his stuff, and goes ahead and teaches it. Cheers, -dlj.
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