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I think this list could use some updating. Most books on the list are super old. Also, from cursory look, there appears to be only one book on discrete math in

by Ivanov 11y ago

I think this list could use some updating. Most books on the list are super old. Also, from cursory look, there appears to be only one book on discrete math in Intermediate. There are tons of discrete math books that should serve as stepping stones for the one listed. For example, Discrete Intro to Math by Edward Scheinerman and Discrete Math by Susanna Epp.

Tomte 11y ago
Old books aren't bad, in fact, it's rare that new books are much better than the very best of the old books. The Reddit discussion linked in another comment yields an updated Github repository, but a cursory glance didn't come up with any big changes. Re: your Discrete Math complaint; if the author (and his friends, there were very few reviewers involved) didn't specialize in Discrete Math, then it's not surprising that somethign is missing. In fact the author actually explicitly says that the list is incomplete and which his specialties were.
- Ivanov 11y ago
  I am not really complaining about Discrete Math. The book listed in Intermediate is fairly/horrendously difficult for someone who hasn't seen elementary treatment of the subject before. Also, there are newer books of comparable quality to old classics like Algebra by Birkhoff/Maclane. If nothing, they have updated prose. Chapter 0 by Aluffi is phenomenal, for example.
pakled_engineer 11y ago
List was last updated in 1999 so missing good books like Sussman's Functional Differential Geometry where you convert formulas into programs.
yummyfajitas 11y ago
Of the fields I know well, this book is pretty good. It would certainly not hurt to add new topics (high but finite dimensional vector spaces, computational harmonic analysis, statistics), but for the specific topics covered this list is excellent.
tomku 11y ago
It's actually on Github[1] now, updates would probably be welcomed. [1]: https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib

by Ivanov 11y ago

Tomte 11y ago

Old books aren't bad, in fact, it's rare that new books are much better than the very best of the old books. The Reddit discussion linked in another comment yields an updated Github repository, but a cursory glance didn't come up with any big changes. Re: your Discrete Math complaint; if the author (and his friends, there were very few reviewers involved) didn't specialize in Discrete Math, then it's not surprising that somethign is missing. In fact the author actually explicitly says that the list is incomplete and which his specialties were.

Ivanov 11y ago
I am not really complaining about Discrete Math. The book listed in Intermediate is fairly/horrendously difficult for someone who hasn't seen elementary treatment of the subject before. Also, there are newer books of comparable quality to old classics like Algebra by Birkhoff/Maclane. If nothing, they have updated prose. Chapter 0 by Aluffi is phenomenal, for example.

pakled_engineer 11y ago

List was last updated in 1999 so missing good books like Sussman's Functional Differential Geometry where you convert formulas into programs.

yummyfajitas 11y ago

Of the fields I know well, this book is pretty good. It would certainly not hurt to add new topics (high but finite dimensional vector spaces, computational harmonic analysis, statistics), but for the specific topics covered this list is excellent.

tomku 11y ago

It's actually on Github[1] now, updates would probably be welcomed. [1]: https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib