/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8590623
There's plenty of people in my graduate classes for CS who don't program at all and just use pure math. They're in line to parachute into very high paying theoretical research positions or become tenured associate professors at great schools.

CS isn't really a practical degree, if you want purely practical you would just go to a tech school or 'code boot camp' that would be practical, industry type apprentice learning.

>>8589310
>compsci book lists

Serge Lang's book has a lot of errata, and is missing some things that Axler's PreCalc book has, such as a student solutions manual which shows how every second problem is worked out fully.

Concrete Math is good but relies on a lot of cute tricks. It's more of a puzzle book for advanced discrete math. You can also just read the Mathematical Preliminaries in Knuth's TAOCP vol1 to get the same material just it's a lot more terse.

Spivak's calculus is almost a grad level text and basically the reason for SICM and Functional Differential Geometry where Sussman took Spivak's lament on the state of incoherent math notation and ran with it to use Scheme as notation instead. They are physics books not compsci books. SICM assumes you're pretty well versed in classical mechanics and already have an understanding of both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. You write a lagrangian as a normal Scheme function, symbolically take derivatives of that to get equations of motion, compile those equations to native code and numerically integrate and plot the motion of the system it's like witnessing magic when it's all done.

In addition to libgen.io there's also of course sci-hub if you want to look up Oxford or IEEE journals and type their links or DOI#'s into sci-hub to get a free pdf. Now you have access to grad level research that's normally paywalled to fuck and only accessible to current university students, though some public libraries allow journal printouts on a limited basis.