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His linear algebra video lectures from 1999 are fantastic: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...

I used them ~2006 when I was college. Someone I know who just graduated this year in mechanical engineering also found and used them independently from me.

In my social circles, we've always talked about Gilbert Strang as the best math professor who never actually worked at the university we went to.

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> we've always talked about Gilbert Strang as the best math professor who never actually worked at the university we went to.

I very much relate to this. I've never attended the same school of any of my favorite professors.