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

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

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

[pussreboots@sfba.social]

@oantolin True.

[cwg1231@defcon.social]

@oantolin shout out discrete structures by @MotivicKyle and David Perkinson

[wooshell@chaosfurs.social]

@oantolin I'm not even asking why text books go to 300$, no matter the design..

[moriel@chaosfem.tw]

@oantolin

Don't forget: Everyone ignores the title and just calls it a cutesy nickname based on the author's name, like "Baby Rudin", means this book is probably already on your shelf.

[sudo200@layer8.space]

@oantolin

This applies to electronics textbooks as well

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@oantolin Lay’s Linear Algebra.

[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]

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