STEM textbook general

[Anonymous No.8699436]

Pic related are in my self-study holster. Are they terrible? Is there better? Recommendations pls.

Also /textbook/ general.

[Anonymous No.8699441]

>2011
>Owns physical books

Shiggity diggity, you lost your dignity. Get with the times, grandpa. All the material is found on the Internet.

[Anonymous No.8699448]

>>8699441
pls senpai i am new to /sci/ no bully desu

[Anonymous No.8699451]

>>8699436
Place them upright, otherwise they degrade faster.

[Anonymous No.8699457]

Here are the Dover books I like:
Feynman's path integrals
Dirac's lectures on QM (really good, unrelated to his qm textbook)
Jordan's linear operators for QM
Mendelson, Gamelin, and Kohn's topology books are all okay
Willard's topology is great
Rosenlicht's analysis (really good, move on to Rudin afterwards)
Kolmogorov and Fomin's real analysis
Bishop's tensor analysis on manifolds
Artin's Galois theory (terrible typesetting)
geometry of classical fields (it's about physics, bad typesetting)
Ash's complex variables (really good, better than Ahflors, Conway, Lang)

[Anonymous No.8699459]

>>8699448
don't worry, he probably has never read a single book from his 1tb ebook collection.

Nothing feels more satisfiying than having matching yellow Springer books.

[Anonymous No.8699488]

So all the branches of Science are: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, and Earth Sciences, yes? Every other field of science is just a mixture of more than one of those, or a subfield of those, yes?

[Anonymous No.8699492]

What's a good introductory book for Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)?

[Anonymous No.8699549]

>>8699436
Hartog is the man!

for any major not pure mathematics, the best book is KA stroud engineering mathematics and advanced engineering mathematics.

Been using them since first year, now in an MSc and still using them

[Anonymous No.8699550]

>>8699441
I can tell you never actually read a book. Reading off screens is fucking horrible.

[Anonymous No.8699577]

>>8699436
oh look, another book collector thread

[Anonymous No.8699616]

>>8699441
reading a book is a million times nicer but i can't quite pinpoint why

[Anonymous No.8699870]

>>8699436
whats your gpa/major

[Anonymous No.8699898]

>>8699550
Seriously. I read faster with print books, can't fucking stand reading off a screen.

[Anonymous No.8699931]

>Ash's complex variables (really good, better than Ahflors, Conway, Lang)

Is it better than using Stein & Shakarchi + Schaum's? I'm taking complex right now and I've learned next to nothing thanks to a terrible lecturer, have to go back through it over the summer and take the graduate sequence next year. Do you think Ash would be a good second in-depth look at the subject?

[Anonymous No.8699934]

>>8699436
>JP Den Hartog

my fuckin' nigga.

[Anonymous No.8699946]

>>8699436
Mathematical Cryptography
The Nature of Computation

[Anonymous No.8699960]

>>8699931
Yes. It's like little Rudin in style and Rudin also satisfies the prereqs

[Anonymous No.8700011]

>>8699960
But baby Rudin is a terrible text anon. People only like it cuz of muh Rigor. Apostol/Pugh are better because they actually do the proofs and explain things well

[Anonymous No.8700103]

>>8699898
>>8699550
I always thought so as well. Buy a tablet. You won't be distracted by your usual computer shit and it feels a lot more like reading a book. I haven't bought a single book since I bought the tablet and I read like at least 2 books a month.

[Anonymous No.8700108]

A certain uncertainty from mark silverman

[Anonymous No.8700109]

Oh look! Another textbook thread.
Because collecting books makes you a better scientist.

[Anonymous No.8700120]

>>8699550
Exactly. Reading off a computer screen kills your eyes.

[Anonymous No.8700131]

>>8700109
>not having a technical library

[Anonymous No.8700142]

Anyone here know a good introductory textbook for physics? I'm learning calculus right so I think I'd be fine following a calculus based one.

[Anonymous No.8700166]

>>8699436
Dover books are usually fine but there are betters if you don't mind getting used.
>>8699451
[citation needed]
>>8699488
Biology ⊂ Chemistry
Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Astronomy ⊂ Physics

[Anonymous No.8700190]

>>8700142
There are intro physics textbooks that don't require calculus?

[Anonymous No.8700195]

>>8700190
Well I assume that there are some that don't.

[Anonymous No.8700227]

>>8700166
>Biology ⊂ Chemistry
In many respects, yes. However, it's so big of a field and so specialized, that it's worth being its own field. It also requires an entirely different approach compared to chemistry.
>Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Astronomy ⊂ Physics
Depending on the sense of scale. I can't really attest to Earth Science/Astronomy, but at least in chemistry, the approach you take to a problem is far different from physics. Outside of physical and computational chemistry, physical models don't really capture the full picture of what's going on in a chemical system. Chemistry often deals with bulk solutions/materials, where physics generally focuses on one or two aspects of what's happening. That said, physics is a supremely useful tool to use when solving chemical questions.

[Anonymous No.8700277]

>>8699451
That's for CDs

[Anonymous No.8700282]

>>8700142
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Physics_Textbook_Recommendations#High_School

[Anonymous No.8701226]

I've been looking for this one Programming book all morning and I haven't had any luck, does anyone know where I can find a pdf of
Programming, Problem Solving and Abstraction with C by A Moffat, 2nd edition (2012-2013)

[Anonymous No.8701234]

I have found the more books you have the less likely you are to read any of them.

[Anonymous No.8701354]

>>8701234
i would guess that is generally true because people who can afford large quantities of books are already in a career and read only for pleasure. small book collections are for children (who treasure each one) and poor students crammed into tiny rooms.

[Anonymous No.8702106]

Very readable

[Anonymous No.8702161]

>>8699550
>actually reading textbooks and not just finding the couple of pages you need at the time

lmao what are you an academic?

[Anonymous No.8702204]

>>8699550
>>8699898
>>8700120

But isn't that what you guys are doing right now?

[Anonymous No.8702213]

>>8702204
Brb gonna start printing out every webpage before I read it

[Anonymous No.8702218]

>>8700166
> Biology ⊂ Chemistry
> What are emergent properties?

[Anonymous No.8702238]

>>8699448
1. get books from some russian sites
2. when you get serious (trying to finish a book), print them
3. if you really really happy with the book, buy it