Library thread

[Anonymous No.14721717]

Post your personal library
Rate and discuss

[Anonymous No.14722072]

>>14721717
how many of these have you read?

[Anonymous No.14722095]

>>14722072
Dune

[Anonymous No.14722159]

>>14722072
Most of them except for pdes and functionak analysis, pdes im still working thru and wont be done with it in at least a year, functional analysis turned out to be a bit too advanced for me so I returned it to the uni lib and grabbed a more basic text on the subject.
That's the only book I dont own there btw.
But cmon, post your stuff

[Anonymous No.14722165]

>>14721717
these threads always remind me of /gg/ on /my/ where a bunch of guys who suck at guitar and never practice nonetheless think that one day their guitar playing will become good if they simply collect the right pedals and amps and picks and classic guitar with the special strings and locking tuners. granted there are people here on /sci/ who are decent at math but i’d guess most people are just collectors like /gg/. on /gg/ nobody ever ever talks about like practicing routines or techniques, it’s just an obsession with collecting things they are unequipped to do justice to

[Anonymous No.14722170]

>>14722165
Most of these books ive grabbed for courses ive done and completed.
Read >>14722159
I am in grad school for math bro

[Anonymous No.14722186]

>>14722170
I have like 10 shelves crammed full of math books, but they're in the living room.

[Anonymous No.14722190]

>>14722170
yeah i don’t doubt that. it’s a small collection which is typical for a math grad student; you collect like two books per year during undergrad and your first few years of grad school so you end up with like 12 or 15 by the time you move onto research articles

i’m more complaining about like that insane anon who has like an entire wall of his office covered with math books. that’s just stupid collecting. and he always “wins” this type of thread

[Anonymous No.14722205]

>>14721717
Haven't actually read most of them.

[Anonymous No.14722228]

>>14722190
>12-15 books by grad school typical
Are typical people only doing their classes?

[Anonymous No.14722275]

>>14722190
>and he always “wins” this type of thread
This is a gentleman's thread, theres no winning or losing, just discussion.

[Anonymous No.14722278]

>>14722275
True

[Anonymous No.14722525]

Some of what I have, I have a lot.

[Anonymous No.14722551]

>>14722525
How many of those have you read?

[Anonymous No.14722794]

>>14722525
This is some fucking big boy shit, how much of this have you gone thru?

[Anonymous No.14724275]

>>14721717
Here's my library.

[Anonymous No.14724315]

>>14724275
Are you female?

[Anonymous No.14724317]

Why do you even buy books if you can get them free?

[Anonymous No.14724325]

>>14724315
>>14724275
No, why?

[Anonymous No.14724327]

>>14721717
is that Calculus of variations book any good?

[Anonymous No.14724330]

>>14724325
That mirror at the right made me think that you could be a female :3

[Anonymous No.14724345]

>>14722525
of all color available to choose they picked the gayest and most annoying one for an interesting topic. Shame on Springer collection.

[Anonymous No.14724353]

>>14724330
>>14724325
That's my personal mirror, I just don't have a place
to hang it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.14724362]

>>14724275
I've seen this same pic before, and actually saved it for future reference in another device. Are you the same anon? and still exactly at the same date Aug 2? really? is this too much of a coincidence or you made it up anon.

[Anonymous No.14724368]

>>14724275
forgot to mention I got the Asmar PDE book thanks to this pic related.

[Anonymous No.14724372]

i have a collection of rare literature; some one of a kind stuff, some low publishing run. commonly available stuff isn't worth hoarding, only unique or nearly unique information is worth the trouble.

[Anonymous No.14724382]

>>14724362
>>14724275
Yes, I am truly the same anon. And yes, that photo
was taken exactly one year ago to date.

[Anonymous No.14724390]

>>14724372
as a former book hoarder I agree with this. I have tons of books from where I'll hardly learn anything new. So I'm planing to get rid off of some of them.

>>14724382
how crazy, lol. Nice stack btw anon :)

[Anonymous No.14724403]

>>14724382
>>14724390
Thanks! Some of them I used for my studies\tutoring,
some of them I purchased for reference or collected
from a old professor whose massive library was
dumped near my college's library.

[Anonymous No.14724416]

>>14724403
>collected from a old professor whose massive library was dumped near my college's library.

[Anonymous No.14724439]

>>14724275
Anon your stack looks like is gonna fall anytime soon. Pls treat your books better

[Anonymous No.14724455]

>>14724439
>>14724275
I know, I don't have a proper shelf to put them in.
I couldn't put them in a vertical stack since I would
have to lift several books to take out/put back a book.

At least in this formation, I can have ease of
access but have to ensure the weight is evened
out and books positioned carefully to prevent
toppling.

[Anonymous No.14724457]

i have two categories of books main (i also have e-texts) & derivative (not pictured)

[Anonymous No.14724605]

>>14721717
>mixing fiction and nonfiction
>having only 21 books
>textbooks are only undergrad level
>unironically buying a book about "philosophy" of mathematics
2/10, generic pseud

[Anonymous No.14724645]

>>14722525
>highly specialized, very narrow area of interest
>yet only introductory and reference books for students
>no obscure research books
>a lot of redundancy
>that one random fiction book
Trying to mimic one shelf of a university library, eh?

[Anonymous No.14724649]

>>14724275
>broad variety of topics
>lots of old/used books
>not even using a shelf, just randomly stacking them in rows
>messy and poor
Based schizo

[Anonymous No.14724661]

>>14724327
Yep its nice as fuck

[Anonymous No.14724663]

>>14724275
math library 8 you
>>14724457
chem library 0 you
lol this board really hate chemistry

[Anonymous No.14725235]

>>14722525
assuming you've actually read these and can tell a hand from a foot, can you recommend a source on homological algebra? my bachelor thesis will probably be about group cohomology. in terms of knowledge, i've got good algebraic foundations and know enough of algebraic topology to understand where homalg comes from (basics of singular homology, homotopy invariance Mayer-Vietoris)
>>14724345
i really dig Springer's look, it makes their books stand out. the egg-yellow hardbacks of the previous century look much better than the modern washed-out ones

[Anonymous No.14725271]

>>14722159
If you're more interested in PDE, you could try with "Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces and Partial Differential Equations" by Brezis instead of Rudin. It might prove more useful to you

[Anonymous No.14725276]

>>14724275
soul

[Anonymous No.14725327]

>>14721717
>>14724275
>>14724275
>>14724457
I have those books

[Anonymous No.14725330]

>>14725327
what the fuck are those utilities bro?

[Anonymous No.14725341]

>>14725330
They just functions that fuzzy find the /Math and /Journals directory respectively and open the selected in my reader.
They are named after pman which is the name for my functions that opens man pages as pdfs.

[Anonymous No.14725353]

>>14725327
fuck, i need to learn Linux, it is incredibly aesthetic

[Anonymous No.14725355]

>>14725327
Do you have some sort of script for bulk downloading from libgen?

[Anonymous No.14725366]

>>14725355
Yeah, it's called transmission.

[Anonymous No.14725370]

>>14725366
how are the torrents sorted? Is there one for, say, Springer books specifically?

[Anonymous No.14725375]

>>14725370
No, you need to download the SQL dump and use to find every hash that has the math topic.

[Anonymous No.14725380]

>>14725341
>fuzzy
never saw that before, looks like a CLI files manager is that comfy?

[Anonymous No.14725388]

>>14725380
No, it's fzf which takes a line from stdin and puts it in an interactive fuzzy search list and send the line you pick to stdout.

[Anonymous No.14725399]

>>14725388
so it basically just automated native linux commands like find

[Anonymous No.14725404]

>>14725388
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
never mind its written in go, im not installing this garbage

[Anonymous No.14725406]

>>14725399
No, this is all it does.

[Anonymous No.14725430]

>>14725406
That. Is. Pogchamp.

[Anonymous No.14725449]

>>14725271
Yeah they suggested this one for a course I am taking right now actually.
Does it go into topological vector spaces ? I really want to learn about those at some point

[Anonymous No.14725452]

>>14725327
Digital library is nice but not the point of the thread.
I wanna see the books you appreciate enough to have a physical copy of

[Anonymous No.14725464]

>>14725452
>I wanna see the books you appreciate enough to have a physical copy of
Digital copies are the Platonic essence of the books, bringing them into the physical world only damages their beauty. Why else would people TeX old books.
The only books I own are books I have scanned or TeX'd

[Anonymous No.14725474]

>>14725464
>Digital copies are the Platonic essence of the books, bringing them into the physical world only damages their beauty.
Weirdest hot take ive heard in a good minute

[Anonymous No.14725510]

>>14725474
A book carved into marble could look extremely nice, and people around the world would appreciate it, but they don't appreciate the contents of the book. Just the form it takes. And that form takes almost all the total information
Computers on the other hand only care about content and that takes up all the information, sure you need a small amount to show a physical representation (it's file format), and some is in the state of the transistors, etc. But comparatively, the content of the book is a much larger portion of the information. (even if still ultimately negligible.)
It is this almost spiritual feeling of being closer to the true reality that is why I study math and why I do this.

[Anonymous No.14725657]

>>14725449
The first chapter is on TVS but the purpose of the book is not to develop the most general theory about these spaces. Personally, I think it's interesting to know about the natural topologies on infinite dimensional vector spaces (namely, the ones given by families of seminorms, or limits of these, or dual topologies, etc.) but working in PDE you will rarely need to know about their foundations

[Anonymous No.14725701]

>>14721717
>DUNC
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.14725760]

>>14725327
this might sound dumb, but do you have any Linux learning resources you could recommend?

[Anonymous No.14725771]

>>14725235
>i really dig Springer's look
same, graphical simplicity and structure (related colors and layouts), without much graphical bullshit.

[Anonymous No.14725773]

>>14724275
these springer handbooks cost a lot, I'm tempted but I think I'll stick to the free pdf's

[Anonymous No.14725784]

>>14725657
That might as well be exactly what I am looking for.
I want to have a grasp on the main concepts but I am definitely not looking to become an expert in that particular subtopic.
In the end I am studying all of these fundamentals to better understand the applied (in the math sense) parts of it.
Well, I'll grab a copy at my uni library at have a go at it. Thanks again for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.14725788]

These are the books I'm travelling with now, I have a bigger library at home.

[Anonymous No.14726447]

>>14725788
I suppose thats discrete optimization?

[Anonymous No.14726498]

>>14726447
yes, basically all discrete.
either you first discretize then optimize, or the opposite.

[Anonymous No.14726534]

things here I haven't finished:
>Mastery
>art of manliness/manvitational whatever
>lost in math
>this idea must die (read 1/3rd, really good)
>Survival Manual
-
>Poetics, but read most of Rhetoric
>no I haven't read the entire latin dictionary, or the german one
>big book of science fiction (just got it, wanted more sci fi)
-
>black arts
>secret history of the world
>apollonius of tyana (i bought 2 books like this for a project)
>celtic myhs and tales (recent acquisition)
>gods and monsters (recent acquisition)
>lost books of the bible (kinda recent)
>books of the ethiopian bible (recent acquisition)

i don't post on /sci/ much

[Anonymous No.14726537]

partially in frame: giant fantasy bookcase
I need to read these sideways books on top, that's more to-do list

[Anonymous No.14726545]

more modern history and misc fantasy
again sideways books up top are to-do list
off frame to the left are old school assignment and other stuff not worth much mentioning

[Anonymous No.14726552]

>>14726545
oh I haven't finished collaboration and great game.
my library is around 300 books, maybe half are fantasy, I have about maybe 20-25 unread ones

[Anonymous No.14727486]

>>14724368
>>14724275
How was the Asmar book?

[Anonymous No.14727776]

>>14725760
There are too many to name.
Level 1:
Install arch or gentoo, use the arch and gentoo wiki
Level 2:
Learn the man command, stick to only using native Linux applications and applications that have man pages.
Level 2.5:
Read documentation, and use the programs that come with your OS
Level 3:
Look around for and read books on Linux and Unix, Unix philosophy etc. you will already know many programs and piping at this point so you will start shell scripting here
Level 4: Learn C and real programming.

Linux is a Unix clone so old Unix documentation will usually work, but the programs will be different, and so will some details,
Many programs have extended documentation that can be found on the creator's website
Keywords on libgen
Unix, Linux, Unix scripting, Linux scripting, Unix programming, Linux programming

[Anonymous No.14727782]

>>14725701
superset union intersection subset
⊃∪∩⊂

[Anonymous No.14727798]

Only book I own and have read. (outside excerpts and spark notes in school)

[Anonymous No.14727810]

>>14727798
Based, I'll read it.

[Anonymous No.14727815]

>>14725760
https://linuxjourney.com/
start here you have also books recommendations at the bottom

[Anonymous No.14727823]

>>14727815
That website is pretty shit desu.
https://cat-v.org/
https://suckless.org/
http://www.catb.org/esr/esr
https://unix.stackexchange.com/
https://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
https://www.gnu.org/software/

Are some good starters

[Anonymous No.14727826]

I... read every once in a while

[Anonymous No.14728029]

Am mostly a collector so I have a lot I have not read but this is what I read or reference on the (almost) day to day.

[Anonymous No.14728643]

>>14727486
Bump on Asmer, how was it?
>>14728029
can you tell me something about the three left books? are they difficult?

[Anonymous No.14728678]

>>14727486
>>14728643
So far one of the good PDE books I've found with a good amount of examples and problems.

A lot of other books focuses on the absolutely theoretical part or are a single chapter or two on the ODE books which I consider not enough. But to be fair I study this stuff on my own so I look for sources that I feel comfortable reading.

[Anonymous No.14728690]

>>14727826
bro wtf, are you me? lol
I have a similar mess on my desk. What you read/do in all that stack of papers around?

[Anonymous No.14728959]

>>14728643
I would like to note that Asmar is a good book. I'd say check out Bleecker though for PDEs.

Calin is great if all you know is calculus. It's easy for the most part.
Klebaner is good if you know calculus and have completed at least one undergrad probability course (you can also just read calin as a prereq.). This text is the most difficult out of the three.
The text by debnath is good, it's essentially functional analysis at the beginner level. Assumes knowledge up to ode and linear algebra. It's easy compared to other texts on the subject but it's still "serious" math
Debnath also has texts on PDEs and nonlinear PDEs that are pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.14728987]

my humble contribution to the thread. almost all of these i've read at least a bit, some more than others (Vinberg the most probably, like ~75%), currently reading Samuel and Marcus a little, hoping to concentrate on them while on break

[Anonymous No.14729208]

>>14728959
thanks anon, appreciate it! I am planning to learn stochastic calculus someday but feel like I have to refresh my basics probability theory beforehand. I'll keep those titles in mind though, once I come to the level

[Anonymous No.14729628]

>>14729208
Probability is not required for Calin as he has a probability chapter that is sufficient.
I learned from that book after years of not using my probability. If you want to learn the subject then that book is easiest.
After five years of wanting to learn the subject I finally learned it from that book.
Goodluck sir.

[Anonymous No.14729702]

>>14725271

[Anonymous No.14729711]

>>14728987
Interesting, I never saw CLRS in Paperback before. They came out with a 4th edition this year though. I have both the 3rd and 4th edition

[Anonymous No.14729786]

>>14729628
what is stochastic calculus? from where does it come and where is it applied?

[Anonymous No.14729814]

>>14729786

[Anonymous No.14729836]

>>14729814
I was expecting a sentence instead of a bunch of definition and theorems. What would be the prereqs to this? besides calculus obviously, but functional analysis maybe? something else?

[Anonymous No.14729859]

>>14729836
bro its only 5 pages just read it, all you really need is the definition of a Weiner process
stop using prereqs as an excuse to not learn

[Anonymous No.14729876]

>>14729859
>bro its only 5 pages just read it, all you really need is the definition of a Weiner process
I know what you're trying to state here, but I'm not seeing it, sorry.

>stop using prereqs as an excuse to not learn
no anon, actually I use them to see if I'm lacking something before crashing against a wall I can't climb up yet.

[Anonymous No.14729998]

>>14727826
based psychotic persian

[Anonymous No.14730044]

>>14729876
It's essentially calculus and Probability mixed together. It involves use of random variables and the weiner process/brownian motion (there are other stochastic processes). Think of the WP or BM as the randomness or white noise (look up robert brown). So you'll integrate with respect to the WP and that will be the Ito integral (there are other stochastic integrals).
So like deterministic calculus the goal is to solve "differential equations" (like in the image), but then you'll want to find the expectation (mean) variance, etc. of the solution.
It has applications to every field of science and even finance (stock markets).

Classically the prerequisites have been at least measure theory, probability theory, and functional analysis. But there are many books written at a much lower level that are still rigorous.

[Anonymous No.14730068]

>>14730044
thanks anon, now this a good answer. I was taking a look at some notes here and there. Maybe I'll give it a try in the future if it catches up my interest. Despite I have no functional analysis nor measure theory knowledge yet. Would you recommend me any lower level book?

[Anonymous No.14730078]

>>14730068
My previous posts:
>>14728959
>>14729628

[Anonymous No.14730081]

>>14730078
I'm taking notes

[Anonymous No.14730116]

>>14729836
Not sure why >>14729814 would post this without knowing your background as this is pretty technical stuff. He could've just linked you the Wikipedia page lmao.

[Anonymous No.14730270]

>>14729786
>>14729836
Stochastic Calculus is important whenever you have a random variable as part of your rate of change. It's used a lot in modeling things in time where you don't know precisely what will happen in the future but have an idea about what is the distribution of future possibilities

[Anonymous No.14731111]

>>14721717
Here's a picture from a couple years ago; it's less than half of the collection, the rest are in storage at the moment and I don't have a picture of the whole thing in its full glory.

[Anonymous No.14731135]

>>14731111
Same collection again, just the top of my dresser.

[Anonymous No.14731218]

>>14731111
>>14731135
Finally a real one, I've been looking at all these pictures where the real nerds are. Your pic and storage situation is similar to my own, I need to do some organizing this weekend to take my own picture.

[Anonymous No.14731225]

>>14731218
On second look, there's a lot of pop sci here. Having a little is not bad, but I'd like to see your bookshelf get more dense with text books and weed out some of the fluff here.

[Anonymous No.14731265]

>>14731225
There's a lot missing! I'll have to post again when I get them all together.

[Anonymous No.14731474]

>>14731111
damn nice. I wish I had the money back in the day when was student to buy the books I wanted. I have lots of photocopies bc 3rd world lol.
Also check'd.

[Anonymous No.14731755]

Is it a meme to want the two-book compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary? Many people are selling them for <100$ on eBay, and I'm tempted.

[Anonymous No.14733002]

>>14731755
We have the OE Etymology Dictionary which we've found much more practically useful than a regular dictionary would be (especially since every search engine now will bring you 10 pages of dictionary information for a word)

[Anonymous No.14735016]

Dual copies of Field and Wave Electromagnetics in case I lose one.

[Anonymous No.14735661]

>>14735016
I'm curious what's the book with spiral binding.

[Anonymous No.14735785]

>>14735661
It's a book of guitar fingerings.

[Anonymous No.14735859]

>>14735785
Nice, every good scholar needs an artistic hobby

[Anonymous No.14735863]

>>14735016
>>>/g/

[Anonymous No.14735882]

>>14725235
>assuming you've actually read these and can tell a hand from a foot, can you recommend a source on homological algebra
not that anon but Rotman - An Introduction to Homological Algebra is a lovely book

[Anonymous No.14736078]

Last year or so of audio.

[Anonymous No.14736083]

>>14736078
Tend to give away books I won't reread and do a lot of ebooks, but I have a few shelves in the house too.

Have away textbooks.

[Anonymous No.14736096]

>>14725235
weibel

[Anonymous No.14737499]

>>14736083
You can always tell a pseud by how many of their books are derivative / meta / commentary. For some reason they're scared of going to the source.

[Anonymous No.14738131]

>>14737499
Quite the opposite I've found. Pseuds buy tons of primary sources and will have shelves of pristine unread classics. No secondary sources.

When you see the shelf of an actual expert they will have many secondary sources and niche titles.

[Anonymous No.14738145]

>>14738131
nah I agree with >>14737499 get it from the source

[Anonymous No.14738673]

>>14721717

[Anonymous No.14739958]

>>14738673
Nice, now THIS is a /sci/ library. I'm going to post mine later. I'm not an algebraist but I do happen to have Category Theory in Context and I also spent some time with Rudin's Fourier Analysis on Groups (though I don't actually own it) for something I was working on years ago. Pretty cool collection

[Anonymous No.14739972]

>>14738673
>arithmetic groups book
ive been wanting to learn about Chow groups specifically, is that book any good?

[Anonymous No.14742175]

>>14739972
Well for Chow groups, I think the best book would be Fulton’s Intersection Theory or Eisenbud and Harris’s much more accessible 3264 and all that. There is no reference to Chow groups in Witte Morris.
For the arithmetic groups book, it is a great book to get acquainted with the subject as it covers a lot of material that is usually not found in a single book (reduction theory, Mostow rigidity, Margulis stuff) with an emphasis on the prerequisites. However, the proofs here are only sketched or proved in special cases. The adult version will then likely be in Zimmer’s Ergodic theory and semisimple groups

[Anonymous No.14744120]

>>14721717
Being an undergrad is fun

[Anonymous No.14744127]

>>14724275
All of that knowledge and you have yet to figure out a shelf.

[Anonymous No.14744129]

>>14744120
I miss being an undergrad so much, I wish I could go back.