Why are so many of the books listed 2 or 3 times with the same title but different filename? Are they different versions or just redundant copies?
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Free Springer math books
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Re: Free Springer math books
#32Thank you for sharing, mathematician writing here: all topics and content looks really great
I was about to post the same thing. Some of these books are among the best textbooks for their subjects.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like Springer runs a open publishing model for books, with a fee charged to the author, as usual . My guess would be that they are seeding a bunch of these classic books to increase visibility of the open publishing scheme. And anyway, there's probably genlib copies of most of these floating around anyways...
Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read. Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book. The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual i…
I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site.
I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read. Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book. The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual i…
I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site. I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
I'll play devil's advocate: do you?
In America (the only country I'm familiar with), people are sued by the RIAA or MPAA for copyright infringement. I've never seen a pattern of lawsuits for pirating books[0]. So there's very little risk of getting caught.
If someone has a moral problem with my piracy, I'd reply that I'm a paying member of my local library and I purchase far more books than the average person. If someone has a moral problem with them personally pirating, I'd suggest trying it out. You'll be so happy that you'll retroactively justify your behavior. Like me!
[0] Exceptional cases like Aaron Swartz (who downloaded 1 million+ Jstor articles) do not a pattern make.
Re: Free Springer math books
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site. I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
I'll play devil's advocate: do you? In America (the only country I'm familiar with), people are sued by the RIAA or MPAA for copyright infringement. I've never seen a pattern of lawsuits for pirating books[0]. So there's very little risk of getting caught. If someone has a moral problem with my piracy, I'd reply that I'm a paying member of my local library and I purchase far more books than the average person. If som…
Um.. the second line says "I don't have a problem with this.." :)
I'm personally of the belief that locking up knowledge behind paywalls is a terribly backwards thing to do, but that's modern capitalism for you. I just wanted to call it out because some people are a lot more bothered by copyright infringement than others.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read. Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book. The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual i…
I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site. I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
Anybody who have a problem with this should better read Aaron Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
> https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto
> https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
> https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008.pdfRe: Free Springer math books
#37Random 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?
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#38Random 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 math GREs; I'm in the UK.
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#39link to browse the books
http://link.springer.com/search/page/2?facet-content-type=%2...
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
They programatically disallow that if you try.
Maybe it would be possible to scrape the ISBN's and get them from Library Genesis?