Highly recommend this is you ever need to study differential equations (I guess there may be still a reason for it?). Only thing that helped me pass the class
https://archive.org/details/m.-l.-krasnov-a.-i.-kiselyov-g.-...
Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
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#82A discussion on this happened recently here*: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739003 Someone (@rramadass) made me a good set of recommendations from the titles. * Edit: I see now that linked comment too is from @clmul, the OP here. Thanks clmul!
Oh right, I saw that comment too, and grabbed a bunch of interesting-looking books on mathematics. Glad the website got more attention, good stuff!
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#83Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
Thank you for the effort of putting together the site and material, making the world a better place.
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#84I had a lot of these books as a kid. I'm not even 100% why, but my dad glommed on to the idea that they were of high quality, and also quite inexpensive. Probably my favorite was "Higher Mathematics for Beginners" by Yakov Zeldovich[1]. I was a voracious reader, and largely taught myself calculus from it. Another one on probability and statistics I also found quite accessible (can't find it immediately).
There were some other sketchier pop-sci books, I remember one that had the "water has structural memory" theory in it. But likely those didn't do any lasting damage.
[1]: https://mirtitles.org/2022/07/04/higher-mathematics-for-begi...
Re: Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
#85Highly recommend this is you ever need to study differential equations (I guess there may be still a reason for it?). Only thing that helped me pass the class https://archive.org/details/m.-l.-krasnov-a.-i.-kiselyov-g.-...
I taught out of this book at Tulane and while it is a good problem book, some of the concept transitions don't flow well and you need another book or to write some supplementary notes. Also the section on Jacobians is pretty clearly lifted straight out of Pontryagin's book
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#86Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
Hi! Is it possible to grab all these books as one bundle? I want to keep them locally for preservation and my kids when they grow up
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
This trope is very widely documented in Russian literature, in fact it's one of the "corner truth" of Russian existence. Checkov, Gogol, Pushkin and Dostoyevsky all wrote novels with this exact plot, because it was so lifelike and tangible for all Russians (Soviets) to understand. If you're interested, check out The Bronze Horseman , The Overcoat , or Poor Folk .
Thank you for being familiar with Russian culture, but I don't remember these classics writing about casual link between oppression, suffering, depression and hacker mindset. Me and cyberax are both Russians, except I never wanted to emigrate
Well, Gogol's "Dead Souls" is the first example of a lifehack.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for being familiar with Russian culture, but I don't remember these classics writing about casual link between oppression, suffering, depression and hacker mindset. Me and cyberax are both Russians, except I never wanted to emigrate
Well, Gogol's "Dead Souls" is the first example of a lifehack.
I wouldn't call a deception "lifehack".
But anyway, what makes Chichikov's "lifehack" "a result of having to work around the government that is seen more as an occupying force rather than the will of the people"?
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#89Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
Hi! Is it possible to grab all these books as one bundle? I want to keep them locally for preservation and my kids when they grow up
You can download the entire collection via our Internet Archive collection. You can use the export option from advanced search and keep mir-titles as the collection, then use wget or curl to download all of them.
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#90Maintainer/curator of the blog here. Please feel free to ask anything. Glad to see this on the front page on HN, we had a similar bump some years back!
Have you thought about a printing service so people can order hard copies from you/your-company? It will allow you to maintain/fund this work which i think is very much needed.
Also maybe redesign the site so it is more easily searchable (fast, functional but no jazz).
I have bought a few print copies from low-cost publishers on Amazon India but the quality has been iffy. Would be willing to pay extra for better quality.