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Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?

enriquto 6y ago
> Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering? Go to John Baez's awesome list "How to Learn Math and Physics": https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html And then to Library Genesis.
- human4fter4ll 6y ago
  Thank you so much!
mathnmusic 6y ago
I have been adding a number of these free books at https://learnawesome.org/ https://learnawesome.org/ Do you really care about the format being PDF or is it about the books being FREE? I'd like to make common queries like yours easier. LearnAwesome is open-source, so of course you're free to contribute: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn
- mattowen_uk 6y ago
  Oooh this is like a dmoz.org list from yesteryear when the web was useful. Bookmarked, Cheers!
- Spooky23 6y ago
  Nerds love to bike shed crap like this and bite the hand that feeds. To paraphrase a typical rant: “Making knowledge free and accessible is useless unless a libre format is used like Markdown.” Lol The PDF beef is funnier in that people usually don’t know why they are morally opposed to PDF, it usually boils down to not liking Adobe Acrobat a decade ago, not accepting that page format preservation is a thing, or some beef with zooming or something. End of the day, it seeks to be digital paper. End of the day, it’s an open standard with multiple implementations. Just by virtue of the US Federal Courts using it for millions of documents it will be usable for the foreseeable future, well beyond our lifetimes. (And there are many similar or even bigger examples)
  - ravi-delia 6y ago
    Not just that, but if you actually look at the implementation its pretty understandable. 90% of use cases are covered by the easiest parts to parse too. PDF might not be perfect, but honestly not much comes close.
asicsp 6y ago
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/master/free-science-books.md https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/m... Kenneth Kuttler's books doesn't seem to be there though.
mvalcic 6y ago
Check out the Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- aungmyohtet 6y ago
  Thank you.
ithrow 6y ago
openstax.org
gmfawcett 6y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/ is a good place to find free titles.
ivan_ah 6y ago
Not sure if you needed PDF specifically, but this site has a lot of good OER textbooks, digitized nicely as HTML + MathJax: https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves
posix_me_less 6y ago
There is this good old goldmine: http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=Q http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=...

> Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering? Go to John Baez's awesome list "How to Learn Math and Physics": https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html And then to Library Genesis.

human4fter4ll 6y ago
Thank you so much!

mathnmusic 6y ago

I have been adding a number of these free books at https://learnawesome.org/ https://learnawesome.org/ Do you really care about the format being PDF or is it about the books being FREE? I'd like to make common queries like yours easier. LearnAwesome is open-source, so of course you're free to contribute: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn

mattowen_uk 6y ago
Oooh this is like a dmoz.org list from yesteryear when the web was useful. Bookmarked, Cheers!
Spooky23 6y ago
Nerds love to bike shed crap like this and bite the hand that feeds. To paraphrase a typical rant: “Making knowledge free and accessible is useless unless a libre format is used like Markdown.” Lol The PDF beef is funnier in that people usually don’t know why they are morally opposed to PDF, it usually boils down to not liking Adobe Acrobat a decade ago, not accepting that page format preservation is a thing, or some beef with zooming or something. End of the day, it seeks to be digital paper. End of the day, it’s an open standard with multiple implementations. Just by virtue of the US Federal Courts using it for millions of documents it will be usable for the foreseeable future, well beyond our lifetimes. (And there are many similar or even bigger examples)
- ravi-delia 6y ago
  Not just that, but if you actually look at the implementation its pretty understandable. 90% of use cases are covered by the easiest parts to parse too. PDF might not be perfect, but honestly not much comes close.

asicsp 6y ago

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/master/free-science-books.md https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/m... Kenneth Kuttler's books doesn't seem to be there though.

mvalcic 6y ago

Check out the Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

aungmyohtet 6y ago
Thank you.

ithrow 6y ago

openstax.org

gmfawcett 6y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/ is a good place to find free titles.

ivan_ah 6y ago

Not sure if you needed PDF specifically, but this site has a lot of good OER textbooks, digitized nicely as HTML + MathJax: https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves

posix_me_less 6y ago

There is this good old goldmine: http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=Q http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=...