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Just bought (and assembled) my new bookcase.

In honor, let's have a book collection thread.

Post yours and then guess the psychology of the poster based on theirs. GO!

>> No.5981648

You built your house sideways retard. Or do you just live on the equator?

>> No.5981653

My to check out list
General:

Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists - Gilat
Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics - Moran and Shapiro
Vector Mechanics for Engineers - Beer
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach - Cenge

Computer:

MIPS Assembly Language Programming - Britton
Signals & Systems by Alan V Oppenheim

Electrical:

Digital Signal Processing - Proakis & Manolakis
Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits by Argarwal
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis by J. David Irwin
Engineering Electromagnetics by John A. Buck
Microelectronic Circuits by Adel S. Sedra
Electric Machinery and Power System Fundamentals by Stephen Chapman

Materials:

Mechanical Metallurgy by George Dieter
Physical Metallurgy Principles - Reed-Hill
Electronic Properties of Materials - Hummel
Engineering Mechanics for Composite Materials - Daniel & Ishai

Mechanical:

Mechanics of Materials - Beer
Mechanical Behavior of Materials - Dowling
Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design - Budynas
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer - Incropera

Aerospace:

Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics - Munson
Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Zucker
Aerodynamics for Engineers - Bertin
Control Systems Engineering - Nise
if you have one book, i'd say Kundo and Coen.

For numerical stuff, Tannehill et al, and Hirsch are good CFD books.

>> No.5981654

>>5981648
Would you like me to post the original image so you can turn your head to read the titles?

>> No.5981656

There is not a single science or math book in OP's pic. Embarrassing.

>> No.5981659

>>5981648
it gets rotated on my computer.
use chrome?

>> No.5981660

>>5981656
Brain & Behavior is actually a Neuroscience textbook, but other than that, you're right. I have no "hard" science and math books.

>> No.5981663

>>5981643
intellectual or pseudo-intellectual
do you read those books or just have them on your shelf to look pretty?
also >srs book, srs book, srs book, zelda, srs book, srs book

>> No.5981664

Don't post a picture of your bookcase if you have nothing to show off.

>> No.5981665

>>5981663
>srs book

Trash literature for teenagers hardly qualifies as serious.

>> No.5981667

>>5981643
kill yourself

>> No.5981668

>>5981656
>implying books about dinosaurs aren't science

dinosaurs are awesome. fuck you if you think otherwise, man.

>> No.5981671

>>5981668
Are you 5?

>> No.5981674
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>>5981664
>>5981667
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>>5981663
>intellectual or pseudo-intellectual
gotta love precision

>>5981665
>Trash literature for teenagers hardly qualifies as serious.
Which one of my books qualifies as this, exactly?

>> No.5981678

>>5981674
>Which one of my books qualifies as this, exactly?

The java book.

>> No.5981683

>>5981678
Ok, I giggled. I honestly only have that because I forgot to turn in back in and my high school never said anything about it.

>> No.5981691

>>5981653
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're an indecisive engineer...

>> No.5981690

>>5981671
not the same guy
dinosaurs are awesome. they've been awesome since I was five. what are you 15?

>> No.5981693

>>5981674
gonna go with pseudo-intellectual

>> No.5981697

>>5981691
I am, but only because I'm signing up for grad schools and I want to do every other major other than mine

>> No.5981698
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5981698

>book collection thread.
But I'm a poorfag and have to get all my books on pdf

>> No.5981700

>>5981683
You're still in high school? That explains a lot. First of all it explains the lack of university textbooks. Let me analyze your bookcase:

I guess Orwell, Huxley, Plato and Aristotle were obligatory texts in your English or philosophy class. Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu are a teenagers attempt at "look at me being mature like my father". The Tesla book screams "I am such a science hipster xD". And the Origins Of Species book is saying "I am such a free thinking atheist". Seriously, why would anyone buy, let alone read the original by Darwin except for being a pseudo-intellectual redditurd? Every high school biology book summarizes the theory of evolution from a much more modern and actual scientific perspective.

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>>5981693
You sure? I'm pretty hardcore, bro.

>> No.5981705

Who are you trying to impress? Your fellow 13 year olds?

>> No.5981709

>>5981700
>You're still in high school?
Nope. But I like the tirade that follows from this false premise. Clearly no underlying issues there.

>Doors of Perception
>obligatory texts in an English class
You have no clue what it's about, do you?

>>5981705
Yup.

>> No.5981710

ITT: OP posts a photo of his younger brother's bookcase to troll /sci/

>> No.5981712

>>5981710
Stop downvoting me. It hurts my feelings, man.

>> No.5981715

>>5981709
Looks like I hit a nerve. You're backpadeling hard.

>> No.5981718

>>5981715
>Looks like I hit a nerve. You're backpadeling hard.
Huh? How do you figure?

>> No.5981726

>>5981700
>ignores the Hitchens book

>> No.5981743

anyway...

anyone want to respond that isn't an angsty teen?

>> No.5981748

>>5981743
hi :)
so did you read them? what's your favorite dinosaur? I've not read any of those books.

>> No.5981752

>>5981671
>implying dinosaurs aren't universally cool for all ages

fuck you, man.

>>5981690
this man has taste.

>> No.5981757

>>5981752
I'm getting married next year, and I really want to get one of these totally fucking sweet rings with a real dinosaur bone inlay.

>> No.5981758

>>5981748
There are one or two I haven't read to completion. "Arguably" being one of them. I use it more like a reference book and kind of choose an essay to read at random. As far as favorite dinosaur I really like the triceratops or the stegosaurus. Did you know that there's actually a larger gap of time between when the stegosaurus lived and when the T-rex lived than when the T-rex lived and modern day?
Really, none of them? You're missing out, man.

>> No.5981761

If I dated a man, he invited me to his apartment and I saw this bookcase, I would leave immediately. This anti-intellectual, teenaged shallowness disgusts me.

>> No.5981765

>>5981757
That's a really cool idea, I know they sell a ton of those on etsy. I am not sure if any actual stores sell them though, or if they are available for the woman's ring.

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>>5981761
Tell me more, my dear femanon...

>> No.5981769

>>5981671
what kind of monster are you?

>> No.5981770

>>5981758
aye i did know that. I read a bit of the bible and I've read Arabian Nights and Freakonomics. Not a big "literature" guy. Having a hard time staying with "Gang Leader for a Day". I don't get the feel I NEED TO READ THIS like I do with fantasy/comics/sci fi. Did you know velociraptors are closer to the compi (sp?) in Jurassic Park than those larger dinos? Can't remember the real name, but it definitely didn't sound as cool. I think I like T-rex the most...but only because pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs

>> No.5981787

>>5981770
>the compi
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Do you have a link to the scene?

>> No.5981799

>>5981787
the short little guys. i can only remember them in the jurassic park sega game and the lost world. When someone's going to bathroom, they all jump on him and eat him. They're a little smaller than a chicken.

>> No.5981806

>>5981799
I don't think they were that small, but yeah, probably not as big as depicted in JP

>> No.5981809

>>5981799
hmmmm...looking into this further i learned more. Velociraptors are indeed small (up to a knee), but Compi are also dinos (I don't even know who calls them this). Compsognathus are about up to mid shin. Deinonychus is the dinosaur that the Jurassic Park Velociraptor is based on. Both are dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Both look like they have that cool claw thing.

>> No.5981820

>>5981809
Sounds about right. I got that book when I was like 8 from my grandma, I haven't really read it in a while.

>> No.5981826

>>5981820
There was like a dino magazine my grandparents subscribed me to. Each week they gave a new glow in the dark bone as part of a model, and then the skin. And they had the two color 3D glasses and that's all I remember about it.

>> No.5981837

>>5981826
Sounds amazing. I used to get nat geo kids. I remember an awesome article they had about the year 2030.

>> No.5981884
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Here's my math folder. I took the ones in the folders out to the main one to prtscn them.

>> No.5981895

>>5981884
I don't even know where to start, /sci/

>> No.5981896

>>5981895
Navier Stokes and Numerical Analysis
I want to know this

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>>5981896
what

>> No.5981907

>>5981901
Is Navier Stokes only for incompressible fluids?
It discretizes the craziness that is fluids. Time dependent, turbulent and undeveloped flow. Is there some extra cohesion and adhesion things to check too?

>> No.5981915

>>5981907
I-I don't know... I never read any of them. You'll have to ask a knowledgeable /sci/tizen

>> No.5981917

>>5981907
>Is Navier Stokes only for incompressible fluids?

CFD guy here. No. Mathematicians looking at existence/uniqueness focus on the incompressible though.

>> No.5981941

>>5981917
What about cohesion, developing, and turbulent flow?

>> No.5981946

>>5981941
What do you mean by "cohesion"? That's not a thing. Do you mean viscosity/friction?

What do you want to know about that, and what about developing and turbulent flow?

In your post "is there some... to check too?" i don't know what it is you're checking.

>> No.5981958

>>5981941
uhhhhhhhh the thing that makes a meniscus?
liquids to solid attraction
are they covered by the navier stokes equation?
I guess I could just look this up on wiki.

>> No.5981961

>>5981958
>I guess I could just look this up on wiki.

I'm happy to help, I love talking about my work (I did a /sci/ AMA yesterday).

The meniscus effect is generally called "surface tension" and yes, it's covered by the NS equations -- although the wall attachment is technically an imposed boundary condition, not really part of NS. The shape of the meniscus given that boundary condition is certainly covered by NS. It's a standard homework problem in a first course on viscous flows or capillarity.

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>>5981643

Alright, let's see.

> Scrabble
Simple-minded infantile.
> Doors of Perception
Idealist; potential addict.
> Automate This
Intellectually mediocre; pretentious.
> Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland
Nostalgic; poor critical thinking.
> The Symposium
Vividly pronounced idealism; lack of logical reasoning ability.
> Republic
Prototypic elitism.
> Spanish Dictionary
Irrationally enthusiastic.
> I am a Strange Loop
Critical lack of deductive reasoning ability; lean on false inductive reasoning.
> Mastery
Oh, that's lovely. Just look how much it alone gives away:
Unsatisfactory knowledge of social protocols; lack of self confidence; naiveness (even though you will deny it, as if your life depended on it); weren't popular in school at all -- quite possibly were picked on by alpha-males; lost virginity somewhere in the middle of university education, if ever; had no more than one girlfriend (two is the absolute limit); have no real friends, which you like to explain by the fact, that it's hard to find someone, who'd share your interests; inveterate dreamer (at this point it's pretty clear, that you're an extreme introvert, anyway); procrastinator.

Yeah, I think I can stop here.

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>>5981966
Oh yeah, and the way you responded to people, who stated similar theses -- distinct, with lots of defensive irony -- that, my friend, shows your insecurity and fear of great set of complexes being excavated. Get a life, until it's too late.

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>> No.5981985

>>5981983
Decent for an engineer-untermensh.

>> No.5981987

>>5981643
I am a strange loop but no GEB? Strange loop indeed.

>> No.5981990

>>5981700
>You're still in high school?
How did you get that from what he said? What is wrong with you? Please leave STEM, you're plainly too stupid for it.

>> No.5981996

>>5981983
which ones do you like?

>> No.5982007

>>5981996

I'm an RF guy by degree and profession so that's my bias.


"Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits" is pretty much the bible for Analog IC. Good grad, and professional resource.

"Field and Wave Electromagnetics" is an awesome E&M reference, it's basically a well written and produced basic physics E&M textbook.

"High-frequency amplifiers" is packed with goodness on s-parameters, old school smith charting, and general amplifier design. Great technical resource for discrete design.

Everything else is meh. The Ulaby and Vendelin books are garbage.

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>>5981653
same guy

having a hard time with paint soooooo...

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>>5982024

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>>5982026
four not pictured to the left
Fundamentals of Material Science and Engineering
Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

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>>5982033
4/4
I don't really keep good track of my books.
I had to put things away just for this.
reading books are everywhere

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Here are all the random books sitting on my desk.
Almost none of them are science related, because this is my desk at home that I don't use for work.
Aniara-Martinson
Neutronium Alchemist-Hamilton
Testament-Shostakovich
Berg-violonkonzert (score)
Topology-Munkres
Symphony no. 4-Lutoslawski (score)
Concerto for Orchestra-Bartok (score)
The stupid My Atom is Ark series (Chandos)
Brandenburg Concertos and orchestral suites- bach (score)
The AD&D handbook and DM's guide
Some star wars book
the eye of the world (my ex gave it to me and I haven't read it yet)
the dreaming void-hamilton
on the road-keroac (I still like it, don't judge)
the inferno-dante (John Ciardi translation)
six easy pieces-feynman (birthday gift from my professor, not sure if subtle insult)
Genesis-an epic poem-Turner
The New world-Turner (much better then genesis)
Strange stories, amazing facts (entertaining because it's 40 years old and more than half of it is wrong)
The Alchemists Kitchen (surprisingly, a seriously written book about alchemy)

>> No.5982094
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Biomedical computer engineer reporting in.

>> No.5982102

>>5982094
>Count zero
yes.

>> No.5982110

>>5982094

What do you have your degrees in? Unless your school offered "biomedical computer engineering", but that seems weird.

Both those fields interest me greatly.

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>>5982110
It's a computer engineering degree. My school offered a biomedical option. It's mostly about imaging systems; hence all the computer graphics books.
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/research/biomedical-technologies

>> No.5982466

>>5981643
>Post yours and then guess the psychology of the poster based on theirs.
>nearly everything is entry level
I'd say you're a high schooler or a college freshman who's starting to branch out.

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>> No.5982611

>>5981966
>>5981982
We got a winrar!

>> No.5982624

>>5981643
>MASTERY

my_nigga.jpeg

>> No.5982628

>>5981761

He wouldn't be able to handle so much bravery anyway. lel

>> No.5982635

>>5981982
>implying you have a life
>implying YOU are not the one hiding your insecurities behind an Look-I'm-so-edgy-and-smart façade
>implying Mastery isn't the best book ever
>implying you're not trying your hardest to look cool

Go back to /r/atheism.

>> No.5982651

>>>/lit/4047503

>> No.5982657

>>5981982
>Get a life, until it's too late.
>until it's too late

>> No.5982668

>>5981643
Poetics twice, why?

>> No.5982686

>>5981698
how do you read pdfs on your computer though. so distracting

>> No.5982767

>>5981698
>Mein Kampf
Confirmed for edgy teen

>> No.5982804

Just posting the titles in my bookcase. I'm too lazy to take and edit pictures. I'm also only actual books, not stuff I've printed out, and only books I use(d) for school.

Alperin - Local Representation Theory
Andersen - Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
Atiah - Introduction to Commutative Algebra
Auslander, Reiten, Smalo - Representation Theory of Artin Algebras
Bird, Daub, Inoue - Basic Technical Japanese
Bransden, Joachain - Quantum Mechanics
Brattacharya, Jain, Nagpaul - Basic Abstract Algebra
Burton - Elementary Number Theory
Cook - Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis
Fraleigh - A first Course in Abstract Algebra
Hsiang - Lectures on Lie Groups
Kreyzig - Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications
Larsen, Marx - Mathematical Statistics and its Applications
Leinster - Higher Operads, Higher Categories
Madsen, Tornehave - From Calculus to Cohomology
Milnor, Stasheff - Characteristic Classes
Roman - Advanced Linear Algebra
Rotman - An Introduction to Homological Algebra
Rudyak - On Thom Spectra, Orientability, and Cobordism
Stong - Notes on Cobordism Theory
Vick - Homology Theory
Young - An Introduction to Hilbert Space
Weibel - An introduction to homological algebra

>> No.5982822

>>5981698
>all that genre fiction and pop-sci

simply epic /b/ro

>> No.5982938 [DELETED] 

>>5982804
faggot

>> No.5983040

>>5982938
>>>/b/

>> No.5983055

>>5982804
>Rotman, Milnor, Weibel
Nice.jped

>Bird, Daub, Inoue - Basic Technical Japanese
Can anyone recommend a similar text for French? I feel like reading EGA, but I couldn't care less about asking where la toilette is.

I did about 3 years of French in high school, but it's been 6 years since then, and I haven't used it at all in that time.

>> No.5983135

>>5982804
Downloaded them all. Now I got something to read for the next week.

>> No.5983177

>>5983135
u som kind of superhuman

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>>5982804
>Higher Operads

>> No.5983194

ITT : the equivalent of /g/ desktop thread and /soc/ rate me/my dick thread, ...

Amusing.

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>>5982635
>That deflection

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>>5983190
>Not using higher category theory every day

>> No.5983290

>>5983055
http://www.duolingo.com/

not a book, but good "gameplay" and design.
It's based on the rosetta's stone method.
If the first level are too easy for you (since you've already studied french, you can skip them by taking a bypass test)

I think it's more enjoyable to spend 1 hour a day on this website than reading a boring lesson book.

When you'll be more confident, you'll have the possibility to turn to *real* stuff.
(or read good novels, which is funnier, but hard).

>> No.5983297

>>5983290

and you must say "les toilettes", not "la" :p

>> No.5983325

>>5982668
Thanks for being observant enough to notice.

One is the dover thrift edition it was like 2 or 3 bucks, but you get what you pay for. I picked up the penguin classic version to supplement the many failings of the first.

>> No.5983781

>2012
>not using kindle

>> No.5983830

>>5983781
> 2013
> 2012

>> No.5983836

You seem like a far more interesting person than the rest of this board, OP.

>> No.5983904

bump

>> No.5983914

>>5983830
>2013.5
>2013
>2012

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good luck readin me faggets

>> No.5984220

>>5983914
> 2013 8/12
> 2013.5

>> No.5984391

>>5983937
>4 books
In other words, you are illiterate?

>> No.5984396

>>5983937
Elementary mathematics
IKS people: First class.

no clue what гражданскый means

>> No.5984480

>>5981643
>Mastery

The thing with that book is that Robert Greene doesn't live up to that or his other books.
Read mastery by George Leonard instead

>> No.5984486

>>5984396
гражданскый means civil

>> No.5984492

>>5983290
>>5983297
Thanks, I'll check it out. But as I said, I don't want to be able to order any baguettes.

Bonus points for proper sage usage though.

>> No.5984513

Too lazy to go down to my bookshelf and take a picture and I don't remember all the names. But I have every edition of the American Machinist's Handbook, about 12 books regarding machining and shop theory, another 12 or so on MasterCAM, Esprit, and other little CAM softwares. A few AutoCAD and SolidWorks books, and a couple of metallurgy textbooks.

Nothing's really hard science, but oh well.

>> No.5986314

>>5982804
Nice collection of high school math books.

>> No.5986401

>>5981643
You're equally prone to accept bullshit as you are to accept established fact. Judging by the number of Aristotle books (and the random Huxley) contrasting with Darwin and Tesla, and more plausible books by Krauss, Plato, and Hitchens.

>> No.5986440

>>5984220
>2013 2/3
>2013 8/12

>> No.5986484

The C Programming Language
Data Structures and Design in C
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!!
COBOL for the 21st Century
Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino
Starting out with C++
Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory
Understanding Artificial Intelligence

>Freshman CE student

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I gots them books.

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judge me

>> No.5986643

>>5986639
> Trigun
nice, I have those
> Ayn Rand
not so nice
does her books read well?
> Critical of Einstein books
I guess they could make his mistakes in to books. I try to focus on the things he got right, but to each his own.
> Mark Twain
Idk I really didn't like Huckleberry Finn
I remember liking Tom Sawyer when I was younger...How's his other stuff, is it prince and the pauper? is that his? Conneticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court?

>> No.5986653

>>5986643
Ayn Rand's philosophy is better than he writing. I couldn't get through Atlas Shrugged, but thoroughly enjoyed Return to the Primitive, which is a collection of her published articles. Einstein's Mistakes is more of a history of science book. His mistakes being largely personal (adultry, etc.). The Mark Twain is his quasi-autobiography which has a ton of filler in it, but the parts actually written by Twain are top teir.

>> No.5986667

>>5986653

I guess I kind of cheat to get philosphy using wikipedia and bioshock. I only go to the books to get good sound bites.

Einstein made a few scientific ones too I thought.
Most notably about quantum mechanics
"God does not play dice" and all that
There was a guy ranting a couple days ago about sheep blindly following Einstein's theory of relativity and the poor math behind it.
That book sounds more like historical anecdotes than actual history

>> No.5986696

>>5986667
That it is. It's very light history. The best part of the book is the story about Donald Crowhurts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowhurst#Mental_breakdown_and_death).). In the wikipedia article it doesn't talk about it, but his logs also included ramblings about how Einstein can't just say the the speed of light is constant.

>> No.5986709

>>5981654
don't pay attention to that douche missing the important part of your post.

>> No.5986718

i don't get why you guys feel so superior about what you read, i don't care as long as you read something.. freedom of choice.

>> No.5986823

>>5986718
It's about getting together with the people that read the same stuff. You can talk about books and interesting ideas ad infinitum. This is especially useful if not very socially apt and doesn't get along with people IRL.

>> No.5986850

>>5983937
Yo who cares about your books, post more pics of that Ryu figurine!

>> No.5986933

>>5986401
What's the problem with the Aristotle books?

>> No.5986941

>>5986933
Aristotle was wrong about everything
Didn't do science to prove his theories
but he lived before the scientific method was invented soooo I still think he's pretty cool

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>>5986850
> be wanting this for months, first somewhat valuable item of the whole collection
> when it's delivered I'm already too rational to care about such stuff
> still haven't open the artbook
> unpacked figurine for the first time just now, because anon asked too
> the face when


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>> No.5989569

>tfw no one even gives a fuck

>> No.5989577

>>5989569
if no one gives a fuck why are you posting on a two day old thread

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>>5989577
Maybe they are out there, waiting for someone to post Ryu's figurine or tell a sad story about toys on /sci, they just missed the thread... And that itself makes me sad.

>> No.5989597

>>5989587
I like the thread. I posted in it a bunch. I wish more people would post their books. That guy is not. He's going to the last page and bumping

>> No.5989631

I have all the English-language technical stuff in PDF so this is the closest I can get to the theme.

Judge me if you can.

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>>5989631
Yup.

>> No.5989643

>>5983937
ну ты и лошара

>> No.5989668

>>5989632
Negligible sense of perfectionism; strong enthusiast; extrovert; relatively easy influenced; my long-shot would be you're not a materialist.

So you, Czechs, also have 3-volume version of Feynman lectures. By any chance, do you know what's the the difference between original 9-volume version and this?

>> No.5989679

Question for those who read math textbooks:

Do you read every single chapter and go over every single theorem?

>> No.5989694

>>5989679
Solve every problem, prove every "left as an exercise" theorem, read every historical note, check every given hint or solution for completeness, refer to given references.etc.

Yes. Yes yes yes.

>> No.5989698

>>5989679
It absolutely comes down to your intentions. "Why have you picked this book?" is the most important question here. If the case is aсquiering certain area of knowledge (say, single-variable calc), not remembering or learning some single bit of information, it depends on your perfectionism level. "I'd waste time learning what I don't need currently" and "Additional info always can come in handy; would be interesting to know" both have the place to be and, again, in comes down to your psychological portrait. Just don't be low-will doormat and ask about everything, have your own way, opinion.

>> No.5989702

>>5989668
Pretty close. I also have a philosophy shelf, but that wouldn't most likely tell much more.

I don't know about the Feynman lectures, though.

>> No.5989703

>>5989694
Do you realize, that you're an idiot? I dare you to remember 10% of everything you have learned. Unless, of course, you're only starting your relationship with maths and don't yet comprehend the Memory Problem. Unless, of course, you have hypermnesia or mnemonic skills, in which case accept my admiration.

>> No.5989704

>>5989703
Though I'm partially telling this, because I'm exactly the same. Except for references. If I got you right and you mean searching for the books/articles to which a reference in the given book is given after a certain quote. Why would you do that, even with OCD?

>> No.5989706

>>5989703
>Pretty close. I also have a philosophy shelf, but that wouldn't most likely tell much more.
>I don't know about the Feynman lectures, though.
That's why you read whole book. To remember those 10% you fucking pig.

>> No.5989707

>>5989702
Can you point out where I missed? Without checks you can't improve skill.

>> No.5989708

>>5989706
First of all, you're replying to a wrong guy. Now, I dared him to remember 10% because in his case 10% is fucking TONS compared to "usual" 10%. Also you logic is faulty. Learning additional, not necessary, information will not increase amount of needed information saved in a long-term memory. Quite the opposite, actually.

>> No.5989715

>>5989708
The practice he gets must be unparalleled, though. Sure, doing every problem is overkill since at some point, the skill is already mastered, but practice is practice.

What's the harm in knowing more? And sure, he may not remember everything exactly, but a bit of review would bring it all back.

>> No.5990082

>>5989707
I'm not sure about extrovert. I have suffered from selective mutism since the age of four or so, and I score on the introvert side on most of personality tests. Although, I'm sometimes very outgoing with my friends.

If by materialism you mean the opposite of dualism et al., that would be right. If you mean the other one, well, I don't usually throw money out the window. I spend relatively large portion (compared to my peers) of my pay (whenever that occurs) on books and studies-related material.

>> No.5990157

>>5982686
So much this, I can not bear myself to read on the screen. Too poor to get kindle or something, but is is any better using that?

>> No.5990162

>>5981700
>Seriously, why would anyone buy, let alone read the original by Darwin except for being a pseudo-intellectual redditurd?
People who appreciate what he did and are interested in subject.
>hurr why would anyone read goethe, we huv sparknotes
>hurr why read Abel, you can find a cheat sheet ;)

Pls die.

>> No.5990911

>>5990157
When printed books cost a hundred dollars, it's simply cheaper to read the pdf files on the screen instead.

>> No.5990961

>>5990911
>>5990157
you still can print them (zoom out, 2*4 for instance, and recto verso).

But mother earth doesn't like :(

>> No.5990971

>>5981643
I have Gray's Anatomy and Dinosaurs, which I've had since I was 2.

>> No.5990989

>>5981698
Upload now.

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Icarus at the Edge of Time, Brian Greene. 9/10

>> No.5991333

Actually, there's some science in reading paper books. It's been learned, that we read paper books 20% faster, than text on monitor screen. Not sure about e-books though.

>> No.5991746

>>5981643

Awful. I wish I could post a picture of my bookcase...actually of my reading room. I have separate bookcases; for work (medical literature) and leisure. In the latter, I probably have a few hundred books, all categorized accordingly to their genre/time period. It starts with Ancient Greece & Rome literature, then Medieval masterpieces (from Anselm of Canterbury to Boccaccio and from the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied), further it

>> No.5991767

>>5991746
Oh sweet mother of god, that is a such classical - no, "classical" doesn't even begin to describe this level of pretentiousness - example of humanities; profession only adds to the grandiosity of the whole picture.

>> No.5991769

>>5981643
babbys first troll