Jonathan Gleason was my friend who committed suicide just over a month ago… and I just found out that he wrote this 800+ page analysis textbook. By himself. Because he was teaching analysis and he was dissatisfied with the textbook he was assigned so he just…. wrote his own.
Even if you haven’t done any math… please just take a look at this. Scroll through it as fast as you like. It’s incredible that he put so much work and so much free time into this… I’m still in awe and I really want everyone to see it. In particular, if you want a good laugh, look at chapter 5 of the analysis textbook. The opening paragraph is SO Johnny.
I really want to thank everyone who has reblogged/liked this, and even anyone who just clicked on the link to check it out. I wasn’t expecting more than a handful of notes on this, so knowing that his hard work gets shared and even appreciated by a few strangers really means a lot.
I’ve taken some of the best/easiest to follow snippets and provide them here, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have:
“Da fuq”.
Oh thank god.
At least he admits when he’s being sloppy.
God, I wish more math textbooks read like this.
And last but not least, my absolute favorite part, the opening to the chapter on integration.
There are so many more tidbits like this and I wish literally all of my textbooks could be written like this.
Jonothan Gleason died Jan 16th, 2018 and it means so much to me that so many people got a kick out of the little pieces of him that are in this book. Thanks for all of the rb’s and likes, I’m so happy that even just a few hundred people got to enjoy his writing and hard work.
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#math #suicide cw #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
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