Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/m...
Kenneth Kuttler's books doesn't seem to be there though.
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#22Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?
I have been adding a number of these free books at 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
Oooh this is like a dmoz.org list from yesteryear when the web was useful. Bookmarked, Cheers!
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#23Another solid source of free math resources: https://realnotcomplex.com/
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#24In college I was taught Linear Algebra from the operator point of view, rather than with matrices. That way theorems are clearer and the student's understanding is deeper, but for applications it's better to study from the matrix point of view and with lots of examples. Kuttler's book was refreshing in that sense. His other books are excellent, too. If you have been studying pure math (or french-style applied math wh…
Although I understand that matrix-soup is kind of the entropic endstate of all high school mathematics pedagogy, I think it is a real tragedy: In the UK especially even the best and brightest barely touch any real mathematics until after they leave secondary school so they leave with almost literally no idea of what university mathematics consists of. It's all well and good training people to be engineers, but the un…
I understand, I too had a similar experience in high school. My comment was largely referring to my context: This semester I'll finish a mathematical engineering degree (in my country engs. are 12 semesters long) and the abstract way is rewarding but without applications can only be endured so far. It does not help that a large fraction of mathematical engineers after they graduate end up doing some software work consisting in statistics, optimization or some other advanced mathetical concept. With a dropout rate of ~80%, not many people are willing to put themselves through rigorous analysis classes on top of the engineering requirements for so many years to get a job doing something you could have learned in a more practical way. But we are very well paid and the unemployment rate is 0% since there are maybe 10 graduates in the whole country each year.
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#25Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?
I have been adding a number of these free books at 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
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)
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#26Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?
> 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 And then to Library Genesis.
Thank you so much!
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#27Are the answers to the exercises to be found somewhere?
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#28Off topic: nice PDF rendering I wish normal PDF would be as fluent.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding geometry and Noether's theorem, I disagree. That stuff is way overblown in general, it gives you very little ( in classical mechanics) for the time and page count the subject requires. I had a lecture on this topic from enthusiast well-respected physicist, and I kept thinking, this stuff is interesting math but completely useless to a physicist.
Classical mechanics is ultimately just masturbation compared to the "real thing", it's all a warm-up for the mind rather than teaching you how to calculate stresses on a beam - Full on symplectic geometry is niche but the basics of Noether's theorem and symmetries are central to classical and quantum field theories which are ultimately the language in which the cutting edge of fundamental physics speaks. So I sort of…
What are the titles of the two Oxford books you mentioned? I'd like to look at them.