Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:52AM (#22944221)

Same in Poland for more than a decade. It's an open secret here that universities admit many more students than they can handle in order to capture extra funding, and then get rid of the excess after the first year.

On my first year, the amount of students was 2x the actual capacity. The first semester was very math-heavy, and everyone knew we had the toughest and CS-unrelated subjects delivered up front in order to weed out half of the year.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:35PM (#22947396)

My university did it, but because the entrance exams can't evaluate students well, while a semester is quite a more precise and prolonged test.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by a-saleh on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:31AM (#22953377)

Yes, I agree it can work out fairly well :-)

On the other hand, I have seen a prof. literaly say something along the lines "Dear students, my purpose here is not to teach you anything, just weed out 50% of you"

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