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11602636 No.11602636 [Reply] [Original]

Does this chart say I should do either the Gelfand treatment or Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang? Or does it mean read all the Gelfand books then proceed to Basic Mathematics?

>> No.11602642

>>11602636
Start with the Greeks

>> No.11602942

bump

>> No.11602949

>>11602636
This is such a meme list. But yes it is saying either Gefland or Lang.

>> No.11602979

>>11602636
>Does this chart say I should do either the Gelfand treatment or Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang?
Lang is a meme.

>> No.11602980

>>11602949
Is there a better chart or list of books that you'd recommend?

>> No.11602990

>>11602949
Second thid

>> No.11602996
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11602996

Honestly, a non-meme list for people wanting to get a good, comprehensive understanding of mathematics from basics to an undergrad level would be really nice.

>> No.11603002

>>11602996
Read Euclid and Euler's Algebra.
Then just pick whatever are your favourite beginning undergrad books.

>> No.11603216

>>11602996
pretty much every list there is will get called a meme list by someone

>> No.11604112

>>11603002
This is incredibly stupid.

>> No.11604165

why james stewart?

>> No.11604218

>>11604165
There are other variants of this image floating around with spivak/apostol

>> No.11604244

>>11602996
The one in OP isn't actually that bad just a bit slow at the start with all the precalculus stuff.

>> No.11604246
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>>11602996
We already made one of those

>> No.11605217

>>11602980

Get Engineering Mathematics by K. A. Stroud. Work through it linearly or simply revise what you need to know from it. Following that, for advanced topics simply buy a specialised book that covers it.

Also get a book that teaches you how to write proofs e.g. How to Prove it by Velleman.

This graph is just useless elitism. You will be overwhelmed by the quantity and you'll give up. Stroud's book is one book that you can work through and keep your focus.

>> No.11605570

>>11605217
>This graph is just useless elitism.
No its not, everything after "a primer" is just completing the requirements you need to study graduate level math. Past "a journey" is where you're supposed to specialize, not go through everything listed in its entirety.

>> No.11605750

>>11602636
neither.

>> No.11606567

>>11604112
So are you, but you won't see me saying it

>> No.11606604

>>11602642
unironically reading greek math, particularly euclidean geometry is an incredibly formative experience.

>> No.11606683

>>11602636
Get Gelfand and Lang if you want.

Gelfand writes in a friendly tone and takes you on a bit of a journey. His books sort of have a narrative feel to them, they're very linear and streamlined. He provides many answers to his problems. His books are nice and short but packed full of information.

Lang cuts the crap and gives you everything you need. He doesn't provide many answers to the problems and oftentimes the difficulty of the problems seem disproportionate to the explanations he provides. He seems to expect you to do a lot of work. Lang's book also includes information that is not included in the Gelfand books shown (mappings and matrices, for example).

Ultimately they're two very good educators. People here might argue that reading both of them is a silly idea, but I think you would benefit immensely from reading both.

>> No.11607071

>>11606683
thanks for an actual answer, man

>> No.11607279

>>11606683
You seem like you know what you’re talking about. Just yesterday I was wondering, how’s the AoPS come into the picture in this case, as an math introductory curriculum?

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>>11607279
Try my meme curriculum https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/math.html
We're doing some wildberger for the lelz, and Tao's Analysis I. Sometime this week we'll start Strang's Calculus.

AoPS is really good, hard to find their fucking books on libgen.is though it's all terribal scans that are huge in size. Gelfand is OK, I've done Algebra and the cartesian coord book and there's some difficult as shit exercises in there but they mostly assume that you already know the material from a full course somewhere. Lang there is problems in errata, so if you know this going in it's fine otherwise you'll be WHY ISNT THIS CORRECT but you are actually correct

>> No.11607331

>>11607326
*terribad
Can't type on this phone.
>>11606604
It is although Euclid had a really different idea about geometry than us, he didn't consider 'distance' just superimposing one shape on to another, so this makes it a little more eye opening for me anyway.

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>>11602636
Book thread?

This was posted on /biz/.
Based or cringe?

>> No.11609120

>>11608241
X for Y books are usually terrible, just study X decently. Plus I don't like that Game Theory book.

>> No.11609140

>>11607326
Currently watching Wildeberger's algebraic calculus in the affine plane, very finite, just how I like it.

>> No.11609226

>>11609140
That sounds strange. For which finite affine plane does "algebraic calculus" make sense?

>> No.11609490

>>11609226
meme
wildberger is the enemy of infinite

>> No.11609506

>>11608241
Mankiw is good for noobs and Capniski is good

>> No.11611054

How about CLRS?