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also: textbooks are cheap (anything behind the latest edition has high supply and low demand as all of last year's students dump them). you can receive tomes t
by nazgulnarsil 16y ago
also: textbooks are cheap (anything behind the latest edition has high supply and low demand as all of last year's students dump them).
you can receive tomes that cover vast swathes of human knowledge for the price of a sandwich. trying to educate yourself online usually doesn't compare to a really excellent textbook.
- rdouble 16y agoMath textbooks are not cheap.
- nazgulnarsil 16y agothe higher up the tree you climb the smaller the market and the larger the premium due to a lack of economies of scale.
- nochiel 16y ago"Math textbooks are not cheap." Actually, they are free. I am a graduate student in Mathematics and there is no book, on any level of mathematics that I have been unable to find for free download. Places like www.avaxhome.ws and old.pdfchm.net are chock-full of math textbooks not to mention the torrents which can be found on isohunt.com and thepiratebay.org that consist of collections of thousands upon thousands of graduate level mainstream and esoteric mathematics texts, all high quality scans. In total, I have many thousands of dollars worth of mathematics books, all of which I have obtained for free (and I feel justified; there's simply no cost-effective way to obtain those books on my side of the planet).