🧵 WESTERN BOOKS = TRASH
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 04:48:31 UTC No. 16139899
>1000 pages long, bloated
>text text text text, no math or science
>"history" sections to bloat it even further
>structured terribly
>quirky joke every third sentence
>(sometimes) emojis, memes, cartoons, "funny" images as figures
>garbage exercises (e.g. copy-pasted exercises like in Stewart)
>lacks many important theorems
>theorems the author is too lazy to prove are turned into "exercises"
>shit formatting
and once you're done, you've basically learned nothing. Now compare that with soviet/russian authors like Landau/Lifshitz, Shilov, Fichtenholz, Arnold, Zorich, Gorodentsev, Piskunov, etc. All of their books are extremely concise, waste no space, make sure to include EVERYTHING, have hard as fuck but pedagogically valuable exercises, and you will be a fucking god in whatever field you choose after going through one of these books carefully.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:21:36 UTC No. 16139944
>>16139899
>Gorodentsev
stopped reading here
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:22:05 UTC No. 16140166
>>16139899
by "western" you just mean modern american textbooks for americans
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:31:37 UTC No. 16140174
>>16139899
Don't shit on "The Probabilistic Method" and "generatingfunctionology", these are very good books with original exercises. And why the hell are Wittgenstein and Hegel listed here?!
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:50:06 UTC No. 16140310
So what do I do now, what should I read now guys to gain concise and up-to-date knowledge !
(Second year cs student, I like math, I would just follow the list of math and programming books on /sci/ fandom)
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:23:05 UTC No. 16140328
>>16140310
>So what do I do now, what should I read now guys to gain concise and up-to-date knowledge !
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:26:15 UTC No. 16140330
>>16139899
>Muhhh Jordan Peterson was totally right! SOVIET RUSSIA, Soviet science, Stalin, Putin, and Orthodox church was so based, not like this degenerete WEST!
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:30:45 UTC No. 16140388
>>16140328
Day 5 of requesting to name the last two books in picrel. Their titles are not visible. Nobody from you niggers know the name, right?
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:36:09 UTC No. 16140398
>>16140388
brown is geometric invariant theory - mumford
orange is topics in transcendental algebraic geometry - edited by griffiths
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:47:56 UTC No. 16140424
>>16140398
Thank You Anon.
There will be a special place in heaven for you
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:50:57 UTC No. 16141106
>>16139944
You made it almost all the way through. Good job. Keep practicing, and one day you can read even longer texts with ease.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:34:57 UTC No. 16141173
>>16139899
>Now compare that with soviet/russian authors like Landau/Lifshitz, Shilov, Fichtenholz, Arnold, Zorich, Gorodentsev, Piskunov, etc.
Can compare. Your point is shit.
And the point of, IIRC, Kolmogorov needlessly overcomplicating Algebra books in order to jerk off his ego, has created the holywar which is still burning among the professors and teachers in the post-soviet space.
Also, lmao at the "extremely concise and waste no space" and the lack of "theorems that author is too lazy to prove"
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:18:33 UTC No. 16141646
>>16140174
/g/ is a pseud board that's why