Questions tagged [books]
Questions in which books play a key-role, such as questions on antique books, e-books, difference between various editions of a book, etc. For questions asking for recommendations of books on some subject the tag textbook-recommendation is often more suitable.
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Books on music theory intended for mathematicians
Some time ago I attended a colloquium given by Princeton music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko, where he gave a fascinating talk on the connection between music composition and certain geometric objects (as ...
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Are French, original editions of Grothendieck's EGA&SGA out of sales?
I have been desperately searching for the hardcopies of Grothendieck's EGA and SGA trilogy, but I could not find available sales except for some used books at Amazon with ridiculously expensive prices....
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Distributional equations: reference request [closed]
I'm really having a hard time finding a book that covers distributional equations such as $xT = \delta(x)$ or distributional differential equations. Any suggestions?
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A course on modern algebraic geometry from "The Stacks Project"
I hope this question is viable for this site. I'm sincerely sorry, if you think it isn't.
For a lot of time, "EGA" by Alexander Grothendieck and Jean Dieudonne was "the" reference on the basics of ...
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What are the differences between The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics and Mathematics for Physics by Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart?
Both of them are applied mathematics books. What are the main differences between them? Which is more mathematical i.e. mathematically advanced, mathematically rigorous?
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Trinity College, Cambridge, circa 1896 maths scholarship papers [closed]
I've been searching around looking for the (maths component) of the scholarship papers to Trinity College (Cambridge) from around 1890. Can anyone provide a link to a pdf scan of these papers?
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Bromwich introduction to infinite series or modern counterpart
I'm looking to brush up my analysis after several years out of mathematics (graduated in 1996 and worked in industry since then).
I want a hard core treatment of analysis in order to brush up and ...
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Greatly expanded new edition of a Bourbaki chapter on algebra?
Recently I discovered by accident that Bourbaki issued in 2012 a radically expanded version of their 1958 Chapter 8 Modules et anneaux semi-simples (like other chapters, initially in French) within ...
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Can I find Fermat's complete works anywhere?
I admire the mathematician very much and want to look at his writings. Is there anywhere in book or web form that has a collection of his writings?
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Springer GTM Reprints in China?
I apologise if this is not the sort of question appropriate for MO; it does however seem that mathematicians are the most likely to know the answer:
Many of the Chinese mathematicians and graduate ...
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university press specialized in math books [closed]
I am thinking of writing a book for graduate students, on graph theory.
Apart from AMS book, does someone of you could suggest a university press that acccept submission on these arguments.
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Popular books written by great mathematicians [closed]
I read:
H. Poincare. Value of science
F. Klein. Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century
J.E. Littlewood. A Mathematicians Miscellany
G.H. Hardy. A Mathematician’s Apology
R. Courant, H....
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Book on Convergence Concepts in Probability without Measure Theory [closed]
I am looking for a comprehensive book on Probability which discusses Convergence of Random Variables in detail, excluding portions of Measure Theory. Allan Gut's "Probability: A Graduate Course" seems ...
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Good lecture notes/books on Jacobian of hyperelliptic curve
I want to understand what the Jacobian variety is from an algebraic (or arithmetic?) perspective.
I want to know:
What is the definition of the Jacobian?
Widely know facts about it.
Why the Jacobian ...
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books on very large scale linear optimization
Recently in my material science research, I have encountered problems of very large scale linear optimization. I read the introductory book "Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific ...
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