I haven’t watched this video yet, but do you plan to create any technical videos in the (1) series on RL in LLMs?

A lot of math textbooks are like this and people’s perception around them.

To be fair Axler’s linear algebra book states it’s for a second semester course in linear algebra but many math people recommend it as a first exposure to the subject to someone that doesn’t know any linear algebra anyway. Technically the only prerequisite is an exposure to proofs and mathematical thinking.

But the book doesn’t like determinants and isn’t focused on computing things around matrices and is instead focused on finite dimensional vector spaces and so on.

To someone that doesn’t even know what a matrix is but have seen some basic proofs it’d be hard for them to pick up and understand Axler in its fullest depth despite the prerequisites just being “math maturity”. Axler assumes you know a lot more than he writes, or assumes you’ll figure it quickly.

Same can be said for Rudin’s basic analysis book. Technically anyone can pick it up and go through it with minimum pre-reqs. But without a tutor or someone to answer questions most beginners would get stuck somewhere.

Also it’s a thing these books don’t tend to include any solutions so without someone checking your work or a proof assistant then most beginners wouldn’t have a clue if their proofs are valid or contain a subtle mistake or would think they’re valid but be incorrect.