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Is there a modern equivalent of this book?
by est 5y ago
Is there a modern equivalent of this book?
- dartharva 5y agoWhy? It's pure mathematics, that book can't ever get obsolete.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoNot going obsolete doesn't mean not improvable. Seems a reasonable question.
- masklinn 5y agoAssuming it’s Carr’s, IIRC it’s a rather odd style of work, it’s a summary of the state of basic mathematics rather than a textbook per se, with pages of theorems with little explanation. So a modern version would at most be a different idea of what the core theorems should be.
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- wbl 5y agoWhen I was starting college I took an analysis course based on Kolmogorov and Fomin. We didn't work with all sorts of special functions, but focused much more on functional analysis, measure, and multidimensional functions. Later we did Fourier transforms for any locally compact abelian group. What's important in math changes.
- dartharva 5y agoBut this specific book only covers elementary-to-intermediate topics in Algebra, Geometry and Calculus from the looks of it. It isn't likely to change as much at all.
- open0 5y agoNot really the case, mathematical terminology and conventions change over time.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> that book can't ever get obsolete Math doesn't change, but language and printing technology do.
- redis_mlc 5y agoWell, besides errata, over time more elegant proofs are developed. You probably wouldn't recognize early Newton's calculus notation, and the early Maxwell's equations were re-written into the clearer and more regular Heaviside vector calculus notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#Newton's_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#N...
- eeegnu 5y agoNote the massive errata list which is very likely just the scratching the surface. Later editions tend to either implement these corrections, or have a more complete list.
- pmoriarty 5y agoBooks can have mistakes. Other editions could correct these mistakes, provide more elegant proofs, more fruitful approaches to solving problems, more understandable language, or more standard terminology.