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derelicta ◴[] No.45068281[source]
Ah it's always a bit intimidating when someone says something is part of the essentials when you have yourself only seen a tiny bit of this course material in your program
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cinntaile ◴[] No.45068497[source]
When it says "essential(s)" or "introduction to", you better be prepared for an incredibly dense textbook.
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1. nicklaf ◴[] No.45073416[source]
Mathematics texts with titles that would mislead a beginner who naïvely takes words such as "basic" and "elementary" at face value are a bit of a running joke, particularly when you go past the undergraduate level.

Just look, for example, at the table of contents to André Weil's "Basic" Number Theory book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-61945-8#toc