paper-machine comments on Guardians of Ayn Rand - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jbay 23 April 2013 03:38:24AM 7 points [-]

From the impression I get from my acquaintances who grew up in the USSR, high school math over there was considerably more advanced than what passes as 'math' in most of North America's school system, and included linear algebra and calculus. I don't know if this is still the case.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2013 04:12:50AM 5 points [-]

Based on anecdotal reports from my friends in the mathematics community, the fall of the USSR has not been kind to mathematics education.