Math Textbooks, Yeah, I'm a geek and I know it...

[fnord_too]

If you love math, check out this series, which I plug at every opportunity because it is so good. I have ~10 of this series, but have only gotten arround to reading a few so far. The ones I have read are just excellent, and assume no prior knowledge. Good stuff.

[tpir90036]

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Calculus really isn't that high of a level of mathematics. I covered that in high school. Math gets really nasty in college. I don't think you'd like math if you took some of the courses that I took.

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Bragging post says what?

[jdl22]

1. Spivak
2. Hogg and Craig
3. Hoffman and Kunze

edit: you really should read Rudin's "baby analysis" book

[BruceZ]

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2) Does anybody know of a good Probablity and Statistics textbook?

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Probability and Statistics by Morris DeGroot is excellent.

[citanul]

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1. Spivak
2. Hogg and Craig
3. Hoffman and Kunze

edit: you really should read Rudin's "baby analysis" book

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spivak's calculus is a wonderful book. for a possibly more user friendly look at calculus, anton's book is quite good.

i've probably got more to add to this thread, but i've got to run.

wanted to note that the spivak book is very highly recommended though.

citanul

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1. Spivak
2. Hogg and Craig
3. Hoffman and Kunze

edit: you really should read Rudin's "baby analysis" book

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rudin makes my head hurt....

[Mano]

For a pretty basic introduction to Linear Algebra:
Elementary Linear Algebra by Howard Anton

[rusty JEDI]

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Linear algebra- Mine was great, no clue who wrote it. It was beige and small. Concentrate on linear programming if they cover that b/c you might actually use it. KEY point is to read the geometric chapter first: think of linear programming as a multidimensional geodesic dome/jungle gym. All you are doing as you iterate through is "walking" the edges/bars to better and better vertices (joinings) until you get to the topmost or sidemost or wherever you are trying to get. Much easier to contemplate if you picture the geodesic jungle gym.

Matt

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My university (UBC) split up linear algebra and linear programming and from what i remember they have very little in common and are definitely their own course.

That said the smaller beige text same edition has been used at UBC since 1984 because no better book has yet to be written. I cant remember who wrote it, but small and beige sums it up.

rJ

[Tboner7]

I have some Calculus books you can have free plus shipping. They are just taking up space in my closet right now. Cant really tell you how good they are since I basically failed it. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] More due to professor I think. He could barely speak English. Made class very difficult. Might have some other books, but it's late right now and dont' feel like looking. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Isura]

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Does anybody know of a good Calculus textbook?

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Calculus by Michael Spivak (and it's not even close)

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3) Does anybody know of a good Linear Algebra textbook?

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Linear Algebra with applications by Keith Nicholson - theoretical and practical. I used it for undergrad.