Are all math professors conceited bigots?

[NeoDevin]

In the end only the instructor knows how they will teach the course, and which book will fit better with their style of teaching/the topics they will cover. Barring the case where they are deliberately choosing their own book for the profit margin (which on a per book basis is fairly small, and so I don't think this is as big a problem as you seem to), if they choose their own book, and it's not a good choice for the course, what makes you think that any other book they chose would be any better?

Put another way, if they make a bad choice by choosing their own book, they'll probably make a bad choice with any other book they choose, simply because they're a bad teacher.

Edit: There are more than enough bad textbooks out there for them to choose from, if they can't recognize that their own is bad, they won't recognize that any others are bad.

 

[NeoDevin]

Also, sometimes it is just a difference in learning style. If a prof chooses/writes a book that he thinks is good, it may very well be an excellent book for someone who shares his learning style. If you learn better from a different presentation, it probably won't work for you.
I don't think anyone ever wrote a textbook that they thought was worse than the currently available ones. They write it to address some deficiency they see in the available ones, which you may not even see as a deficiency.

 

[Shackleford]

Picture this ,Sam at the star gate, she solves a problem in seconds, that is so not real. anyone that can come close to sam will be hailed as a genius.

Hey, I like Stargate. Though, they do make the occasional physics error.

 

[NeoDevin]

Hey, I like Stargate. Though, they do make the occasional physics error.

I like stargate too, but it seems to me that it's one big physics error.

 

[Topher925]

I like stargate too, but it seems to me that it's one big physics error.

Its called science fiction for a reason. There are a lot of things in that show that defy the laws of physics but your complain is about Sam of all things?

 

[Shackleford]

Its called science fiction for a reason. There are a lot of things in that show that defy the laws of physics but your complain is about Sam of all things?

They get SOME stuff right. lol.

Some of the Atlantis chick cameos are nice, though. Heh.