There is much truth to this post about about #math textbooks.

[laguiri@neopaquita.es]

@oantolin there's a book called Gimson's pronunciation of English, first edition 1936, which is the only phonetics book you'll ever need. Revisions have a different name in small print. It's still the Gimsons.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@oantolin one of the best textbooks I ever read was Calculus Made Easy

It is 116 years old

It still slaps

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@oantolin This also applies to other fields of study.

[passenger@kolektiva.social]

@oantolin

My old Young & Freedman from undergraduate is holding up one end of my wife's electronic piano and Boas & Stroud is holding up the other end.

[drsaucy@sfba.social]

@oantolin What really chaps my ass is that math & science books used to be $300+ due to manual typesetting of complex equations. The digital age replaced that need, but the prices never came down.

[drchaos@sauropods.win]

@oantolin Counterexample: John Kruschke's book "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis" it has cutesy puppies on the cover. Good book, used it a lot.

[butchrobot@ice.ch3.st]

@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz exhibit a:

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@butchrobot @oantolin You just made my day. 😁

Also: technical websites.

Technical content is usually inversely proportional to the money spent on graphic design.

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@butchrobot Thanks for sharing, it looks really useful! I immediately thought of a couple of times I would have recommended this to a student.

[donlamb_1@mastodon.online]

@oantolin my database teacher just handed out copies of her "book" chapter by chapter. Best ever.

[rossquantum@mathstodon.xyz]

@oantolin Addendum : if the title is "Introduction to ..." this book is not suitable for anyone who has not already the studied the subject at the graduate level for several years.

[markc568@beige.party]

@WooShell @oantolin The textbook industry was an early victim of the private equity bros.

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@rossquantum

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@markc568 @WooShell I did not know that!

[butchrobot@ice.ch3.st]

@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz this book is my security blanket :))

Also Tao's Analysis fits your framework

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

@butchrobot @oantolin @TallSimon Huh, restaurant logic applies to math textbooks too

[butchrobot@ice.ch3.st]

@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz my Deep Learning professor shouted it out when I asked for proof of some matrix derivative he showed us. He said, he asked his wife (a math PhD) how to do matrix derivatives and she said, I don't know read this book 💀

[independentpen@mas.to]

@oantolin I like how the last one is basically a zine

[independentpen@mas.to]

@Elizafox @oantolin on my shelf!

[enfa@mefi.social]

@oantolin I think this might be the OG #tumblr post, can't find 'cauchys-special-boy' anywhere, might have changed blog name.
https://www.tumblr.com/ceausescue/740165166339063808/if-theres-one-thing-ive-learned-from-my-math