The obvious passion for well-written, physical books made me smile. A nice read for a Sunday morning, so thanks.
Here in the US, we’re obsessed with copyright and stamping away physical books; and replacing them with more ephemeral digital “copies” (a huge f** you to Amazon).
As a side note: I remember reading that the Soviet Union and India enjoyed a good relationship back in the 1970s and onward. I always wondered what sort of impact it had on India.
Another tangent: Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college.
>Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college.
If you have never read any of the Soviet era Science books, you absolutely should get hold of some and go through them. They were succinct and to the point with the density of information being quite high. By comparison, most modern text books are so verbose and sometimes dumbed down that it becomes quite a chore to sift the wheat from the chaff.
Dover publications has some good ones starting with Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et.al. There is also the I.M.Gelfand series; Functions and Graphs, The Method of Coordinates, Algebra, Trigonometry etc.
Here in the US, we’re obsessed with copyright and stamping away physical books; and replacing them with more ephemeral digital “copies” (a huge f** you to Amazon).
As a side note: I remember reading that the Soviet Union and India enjoyed a good relationship back in the 1970s and onward. I always wondered what sort of impact it had on India.
Another tangent: Some of these books look amazing for someone trying to revive his passion for math, decades after college.