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Free Mathematics Books
- slurry 13y agoHuh. Everything from Blast into Math! to Holonomy Groups in Riemannian Geometry and well beyond, all jumbled up together in one big unsorted uncategorized list.
- photoJ 13y agoOr you could click the link in the top paragraph, that sorts them into categories. "Click here if you prefer a categorized directory of mathematics books."
- Simucal 13y agoHas anyone read "The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming"? Seeing it on this list reminded me that I had wanted to check it out.
- jdreaver 13y agoI started the book and enjoyed the first few chapters. My recommendation is to learn Haskell before you read this book.
- Dewie 13y agoWhere is it? I can't find it with control-f.
- Simucal 13y agoHere is a link to the PDF: http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf
- mindcrime 13y agoObligatory: http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.ht... http://mathbooks.reddit.com http://mathbooks.reddit.com http://csbooks.reddit.com http://csbooks.reddit.com http://eebooks.reddit.com http://eebooks.reddit.com http://physicsbooks.reddit.com http://physicsbooks.reddit.com
- dkural 13y agoTime is very, very precious. One piece of advice to learners: A math book takes a very long time to read. Optimize for "best", and best fit only. If it's free, good, if not, it's still ultimately the best return on investment! You can borrow it from a local library, much better to spend one hour doing that, than hundreds of hours on a sub par work. Good books are a good investment.
- Datsundere 13y agoFree doesn't always mean good though. I recommend reading things that are rated well and reviewed properly by a community. I think that would be the most optimized way so you won't spend time reading books that don't explain things very well. You can always try other books if the one you're reading isn't explaining some parts very well though.
- dkural 13y agoExactly my point - you make it more clear: free != good. Must optimize for good. That kind of community would be great.
- pervycreeper 13y agoA guide to the "best" books would certainly be useful, in that case.
- kaybe 13y agoUniversity professors often have a list of recommended reading on their websites. (Ad hoc I could only link to German ones, sorry.)
- aet 13y agoFYI: Most of these are not free books. These are PDF copies of books are most likely illegal in U.S. I agree, books are a good investment, so support the authors and buy.
- VLM 13y agoThere is a best fit algorithm where you have to balance the tradeoffs of switching books for one topic. For example lets say you're learning calc and you have a perfectly good book but the author's explanation of Green's theorem simply doesn't resonate with you. Yes, there's always wikipedia or mathworld or one of the online lecture series... but, if its free and fast and searchable, may want to try another book's perspective. I took a EE type microwave class in the 90s where the instructor provided a lot of value by not specifying one textbook but gave us the best one or two photocopied pages from perhaps a hundred widely varying books. Sometimes the ideal textbook for a rare enough niche simply doesn't exist, or something like it existed but its 30 years out of date, or...
- eliteraspberrie 13y agoMathematics changes very slowly, so old books are just as good as newer ones. Up to the graduate level, you really don't need new books. I recommend the Dover Books on Mathematics series: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_25?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dover+books+on+mathematics http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_25?url=search-alias...
- gtani 13y agoI was homeschooled in math thru high school, my Dad's approach was to give me 3-4 books on any subject and his own explanation, which usu involved partial diff eqs, which meant i had no idea what he was talking about. Now you can go that way with voluminous free materials on teh web a really good list for machine learning and the prereq linear algebra and prob/stats: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/machine_learning_books/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach...
- arsenerei 13y agousu is internet for usually or something else?
- rmroulette 13y agotorrent version of all these in zip format with better names found here: https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9321862 https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9321862
- chris_wot 13y agoI'm afraid that doesn't exist any more.
- adem 13y agoWhenever I see a collection of (e)Books, I have this urge to build something that functions the following way: You pick a topic out of the collection, the page tells you the prerequisites to understand the topic along with books covering that topic. For each book, it shows a tree of books, beginning with one that requires no prior knowledge up to a book that covers the topic. Something that shows you a "path to mastery". Do you think something like that is practical?
- minimize_me 13y agoYou should look at the intro to David Mackay's information theory book. It had something akin to what you're saying...
- twowordbird 13y agoI was curious about this, Googled for it, found it freely available from Mackay's website. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf Referenced table on page six of the PDF.
- adem 13y agoThanks to both of you!
- ezequiel-garzon 13y agoI wish I knew how to build such thing. In any event, your project would be immensely popular. Hopefully financially rewarding too!
- karanbhangui 13y agoThought about this a lot over the past few years. Feel free to email me (address in profile) and share ideas.
- ZirconCode 13y agoI want this. It reminds me a bit of KhanAcademys knowledge maps, on a higher level of course (https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard).
- enupten 13y agoI was surprised to not find SICM on the list: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm/book.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/s...
- jordigh 13y agoHm, I've found at least a couple of these that link to Chinese sites that 404. My guess is that not all of the books here are free. Some might just be available online if you're willing to perpetrate copyright infringement.