/sci/ - Science & Math

Hang in there /sci/...just looking for a place to upload all of these. I have a physics/philosophy collection as well.

My email is above if you want to be on a mailing list once I get my material up.

Interesting read so far.

Internet + Library = free "education."

No one is more responsible for your personal know how than yourself. The undergraduate experience (perhaps graduate level too!) is there to show two things:

1. You can follow directions.
2. You can do what millions of others have done in the past.

In exchange for a sum of money (if you weren't lucky enough to get grants) you can take a series of tests to get "the paper" that qualifies you for more horizons. I'm not advocating hipster bullshit I'm just saying that if you limit yourself to merely what you learn in the classroom you're holding back your potential.

I've been using free resources for about 4 years now. I haven't even purchased a book in quite some time. In fact, when I need to do a problem set for a "new edition" of a book I go to the library and check it out for two hours and copy it down. Otherwise I look online for free copies of older editions or sometimes not at all.

As a recent math graduate I can tell you that using multiple lectures/notes/problems/etc from other professors has helped a lot. Also...sometimes it's just fun to audit a class online before you take it.

Pic related, it's my math collection. (I also have a physics, chemistry, philosophy, and most of the classics).