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

[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

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@enfa Thanks for finding this!

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@oantolin I think this applies to computer science textbooks too, except that if it has some unhinged shit like dragons or dinosaurs on the cover then it's probably also good

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@rossquantum I found the author of that brilliant meme! It's Davide Castelvecchi, using a meme format devised by mathstodon don, @christianp! See this blog post for other nice fake math books: https://aperiodical.com/2022/05/didnt-graduate-texts-in-mathematics/

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@amy @oantolin and it's a required purchase for intro level classes of course

[moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@oantolin maybe also true for my programming classes. 😅

[drangnon@hachyderm.io]

@oantolin can confirm

just by looking at the textbooks on my shelf

[butchrobot@ice.ch3.st]

@TallSimon@mstdn.ca @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz random tech blogs with clean, minimalist WordPress styling my beloved.

[kboyd@phpc.social]

@aburka @oantolin Yep, exactly.

I'm holding onto three textbooks from my college days. Two are plain and boring, informative but a bit of a slog.

One is glossy and useless and destined for (eventually) a burn pile. Perhaps when I retire.

[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@oantolin Courant. "Calculus". Best graphs and text in any intro calculus textbook I've ever read.