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Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by noobermin »

EliRivers wrote: post #38
noobermin wrote: post #37

Random Question. What are the prospects for someone entering graduate school in mathematics, say if they have a post graduate degree in another STEM field, later in life? Assuming they can take the math GRE and score well?

I completed a masters in physics my first time around, and over a decade later decided to do a masters in maths (which I completed). On my own experiences, if you're willing to put the hours in, the prospects are pretty good. Maths isn't magic, and I found there wasn't much at the standard masters level that couldn't be at least managed (if not mastered) with significant but not superhuman effort. I've no idea about…

May I ask further, what field? Is it more applied or theoretical (I guess that is answered by the field).

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by mindcrime »

You know, I'm not exactly a huge Springer fan, much the same as many HN'ers I expect. But I do believe in "giving the Devil his due", if you will. And this is pretty freaking cool. I mean, yeah, sure you can probably find most or all of this stuff using Libgen or torrents, but for Springer to put this much great stuff out there for free, legitimately, is mondo bodacious.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by LordHog »

mindcrime wrote: post #42

You know, I'm not exactly a huge Springer fan, much the same as many HN'ers I expect. But I do believe in "giving the Devil his due", if you will. And this is pretty freaking cool. I mean, yeah, sure you can probably find most or all of this stuff using Libgen or torrents, but for Springer to put this much great stuff out there for free, legitimately, is mondo bodacious.

Why are Springer books bad?

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by mlpinit »

tomtoise wrote: post #18
patrickyeon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).

Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.

https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a#gistc...

There's a comment with a curl command for that on the repository.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by thebear »

Guess there won't be a royalty check for me this year.

http://tinyurl.com/hmwpf8e

I'm totally fine with having our book available for free; actually, I prefer it that way. Yet I find it a bit odd that Springer never even notified any of the authors. I suppose as copyright owners, they can do that.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by jonsterling »

LordHog wrote: post #43
mindcrime wrote: post #42

You know, I'm not exactly a huge Springer fan, much the same as many HN'ers I expect. But I do believe in "giving the Devil his due", if you will. And this is pretty freaking cool. I mean, yeah, sure you can probably find most or all of this stuff using Libgen or torrents, but for Springer to put this much great stuff out there for free, legitimately, is mondo bodacious.

Why are Springer books bad?

Springer books are great—but academic publishers are widely reviled.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by sdenton4 »

noobermin wrote: post #37

Random Question. What are the prospects for someone entering graduate school in mathematics, say if they have a post graduate degree in another STEM field, later in life? Assuming they can take the math GRE and score well?

My general experience with the GRE is that it skewed heavily towards multivariable calculus, since it's the one 'advanced' topic that you can pretty well guarantee that all undergraduate math students will have encountered. Upper level courses already diverge into analysis, groups, combinatorics, and more, so you can't really make a standardized test heavy on group theory, for example. So get damned sharp on your multivariable calc and you'll be good to go....

As for the bigger life direction question, I have no idea without further context.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by nevi-me »

My last math was in high school, and I'd like to spend more time learning in the coming year. I often read research papers, and the biggest challenge for me is the notation. I can understand the stuff around set theory, and a bit of the sigma notation here and there.

What I'd like is a proper introduction so I can start learning properly. Any book one would recommend? I'm keen on buying if it's not on the Springer list. Thanks in advance.

Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by [deleted] »

tomtoise wrote: post #18
patrickyeon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).

Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.

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Re: Free Springer math books

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Post by mindcrime »

LordHog wrote: post #43
mindcrime wrote: post #42

You know, I'm not exactly a huge Springer fan, much the same as many HN'ers I expect. But I do believe in "giving the Devil his due", if you will. And this is pretty freaking cool. I mean, yeah, sure you can probably find most or all of this stuff using Libgen or torrents, but for Springer to put this much great stuff out there for free, legitimately, is mondo bodacious.

Why are Springer books bad?

Oh, I don't mean to besmirch the quality of the content of their books. It's not the books that people dislike, it's the company and some of their business practices - epecially the journal publishing side of things.
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