Internet Opens Elite Colleges to All
December 30, 2007 By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer(AP) -- Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He's written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his course.
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