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They programatically disallow that if you try.
Maybe it would be possible to scrape the ISBN's and get them from Library Genesis?
You could have done that at any time in the past few years tho.
Free Springer math books
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Re: Free Springer math books
#52Random 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?
When I was in grad school, there were some people who were coming back after time away or a few years doing something else, and they generally did fine once they knocked the rust off and got up to speed.
Re: Free Springer math books
#53Guess 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.
How much of a royalty are we talking about in say 2014? Enough for a cup of coffee or for a used VW Golf?
I know that it is rare for modern programming books to make much money for their authors. Thus I imagine for a highly specialized math book it would be even rare.
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#54My 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 li…
'What Is Mathematics?' Second Edition by Courant, Robbins & Stewart[0] is a great introduction to Mathematics in general (And covers most of the main fields), but also (iirc) is good at describing the notation used. As well as that I find Wolfram Alpha[1] and Math As Code[2] good at describing some pieces of notation.
Other introductory books I've found very useful are the 'Dover Books on Mathematics' introductions series, I've found their graph theory[3] and topology[4] books rather concise and clear to read -- to my knowledge they're availible at archive.org in the collection 'folkscanomy mathematics'[5].
[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Meth...
[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/
[2]: https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
[3]: https://archive.org/details/IntroductionToGraphTheory
Re: Free Springer math books
#55My 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 li…
I don't recommend pursuing this unless you have many years to study diligently. My email is in my profile if you have any specific questions: I can recommend a path to take depending on what your goals are and give you a realistic timeline.
Re: Free Springer math books
#56My 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 li…
I don't recommend pursuing this unless you have many years to study diligently. My email is in my profile if you have any specific questions: I can recommend a path to take depending on what your goals are and give you a realistic timeline.
Thanks, I'll get in touch :)
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#57My 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 li…
'What Is Mathematics?' Second Edition by Courant, Robbins & Stewart[0] is a great introduction to Mathematics in general (And covers most of the main fields), but also (iirc) is good at describing the notation used. As well as that I find Wolfram Alpha[1] and Math As Code[2] good at describing some pieces of notation. Other introductory books I've found very useful are the 'Dover Books on Mathematics' introductions s…
Thanks for the info, I am going to have a look at them and see where the road leads
Re: Free Springer math books
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
'What Is Mathematics?' Second Edition by Courant, Robbins & Stewart[0] is a great introduction to Mathematics in general (And covers most of the main fields), but also (iirc) is good at describing the notation used. As well as that I find Wolfram Alpha[1] and Math As Code[2] good at describing some pieces of notation. Other introductory books I've found very useful are the 'Dover Books on Mathematics' introductions s…
Thanks for the info, I am going to have a look at them and see where the road leads
No problem, happy to help :D
Good luck!
Re: Free Springer math books
#59They seem to have made available almost their complete catalog up to and including 2004:
http://link.springer.com/search?showAll=false&facet-content-...
This search yields 110 041 results across all disciplines covered by springer that should be free to download in complete. Only 11 451 books from the same time range are 'preview-only'.
I'm not certain that this is intentional. I haven't found any statement by Springer that they make available all ebooks older than 10 years. Does anyone know more?
Re: Free Springer math books
#60Guess 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.
How much of a royalty are we talking about in say 2014? Enough for a cup of coffee or for a used VW Golf? I know that it is rare for modern programming books to make much money for their authors. Thus I imagine for a highly specialized math book it would be even rare.
After the initial excitement ;-) had settled down in the mid-nineties, it was, on order of magnitude, about $100 per year. Every once in a while, an interested mathematician would buy a copy. Other than that, in order to sell such a book, there has to be a graduate level class on the subject at some university (attended typically by about 5 people), and the teacher has to pick your book over a handful of other options.
I haven't kept track of the grand total that I made off the book, but it would certainly be a rather crappy used VW Golf.
I am so far removed from academia now that I have never thought about how I would publish a book like that today. My first impulse would be to make it a free ebook. Web search for "free course textbooks" indicates that this is not unheard of. Does anyone know how common it is, at various levels of higher education?