🧵 Serge Lang Basic Mathematics
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 08:53:01 UTC No. 16176828
Just to be clear to anyone considering this book who may be reading this board presently or in the future when the archive gets indexed; this book is a complete meme.
I like the idea of an introductory, proof flirting method of teaching elementary and highschool math that isn't purely plug and chug, but this book is not that.
The examples are horrendously formatted and many terms aren't defined or defined much later.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 08:55:24 UTC No. 16176831
>>16176828
Imagine being your average highschool american or person attempting to relearn mathematics and seeing this.
Literally no reason to have something as simple as this be so horribly formatted.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 08:59:48 UTC No. 16176837
>>16176831
The word exponent isn't used until 50 pages after the concept of exponents is introduced, the first use of the word is in the table of contents.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 09:05:37 UTC No. 16176845
>>16176837
Book is riddled with other examples similar to this. Does anyone know of similar books trying to do a similar thing lang does but actually competently?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 10:12:37 UTC No. 16176881
>>16176828
>>16176831
>>16176837
>>16176845
I'm sorry, you have terminal brainletism
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 10:51:13 UTC No. 16176900
>>16176881
many of the solutions in the back have typos.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 11:16:32 UTC No. 16176913
Never understood the point of these meme books. Read an analysis or set theory book.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 12:10:55 UTC No. 16176962
I would like it more if it had a full set of solutions. Using it for self-study is annoying without it.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 15:43:08 UTC No. 16177115
>>16176962
have you read "Jeopardy's guide to Basic Mathematics"
It gives only the solutions but none of the questions.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 15:48:27 UTC No. 16177119
>>16176954
where is this but legible?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 19:27:51 UTC No. 16177325
>>16176954
Now I feel less autistic. I have my own such chart, which iI won't post due to it being incomprehensible to most
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 19:52:13 UTC No. 16177354
>>16176845
Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics by Hung-Hsi Wu is the gold standard
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:18:08 UTC No. 16177401
>>16177119
Zoom in
>>16177325
Post it fag
I'd collect the stuff I read myself into a graph but it's half english half polish so probably not too interesting to most people
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:21:52 UTC No. 16177405
>>16176954
why do you have it
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:26:34 UTC No. 16177411
>>16176954
There are two women in this chart. What is this, some kind of kitchen?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:38:52 UTC No. 16177437
>>16176828
The book is indeed a meme. I think if you're smart it's not that bad, but it's a very shallow survey for your usual retards. It won't prepare you for proof-based intro math classes like calculus or linear algebra.
AOPS is the correct recommendation in most cases.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 21:18:52 UTC No. 16177495
How is the sci wiki for self study?
https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wi
The main issue I've found is there isn't any progression in the subjects, but what about the choices of books?
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 22:44:45 UTC No. 16177591
>>16177495
use this instead https://hbpms.blogspot.com/
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 22:49:20 UTC No. 16177598
>>16177495
The book recommendations are really good. Definitely much better than any of the infographics that get posted here.
The main issue with the wiki is that it mainly reflects the interests of a few /sci/ posters, so there are very conspicuous omissions in the physics section,while the math one includes stuff like fractional calculus or nonstandard analysis which you never hear about outside of this board.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 07:58:48 UTC No. 16178055
>>16176831
anon...
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 08:06:54 UTC No. 16178064
>>16177401
It's just a diagram like that with books, topics, and projects I'm working on, formed as a dependency tree. I have topics like "Analysis" and list a bunch of books which comprise that so that so that future things can just "depend" on Analysis, rather than a specific book.
The books are in a spreadsheet, which is read into mathematica to perform the diagram, using a "transitive reduction" to limit redundant dependencies. The books are listed in abbreviations which makes it only really comprehensible to me.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 13:37:44 UTC No. 16178375
>>16177437
Art of problem solving?
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 13:46:47 UTC No. 16178383
>>16176845
Euclids elements
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 14:14:46 UTC No. 16178412
>>16176831
What is the issue?
Cult of Passion at Thu, 16 May 2024 18:56:40 UTC No. 16178719
Just trying to let the whole board know that I'm coming out of the closet. I let a dude fuck my asshole and I really liked it. I'm tired of hiding.
Anonymous at Thu, 16 May 2024 20:16:31 UTC No. 16178826
>>16176828
It may be hard and frustrating to read but it contains most of highschool material and it will prepare you mentally for harder subjects such as analysis. This and book of proof is all you need to learn precalc.
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 00:09:14 UTC No. 16179100
>>16176845
>>Does anyone know of similar books trying to do a similar thing lang does but actually competently?
>>16178383
>Euclids elements
unironically this
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 05:31:40 UTC No. 16179392
>>16178383
>a point is that which has no part
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 10:15:38 UTC No. 16179626
>>16177354
Interesting mathematics education reform plan. Is he getting any traction?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 10:45:12 UTC No. 16179644
>>16179392
>a point is that which has no part
pretty good definition of a point desu
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 12:52:51 UTC No. 16179769
English math sucks.
t. slavshitter
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 14:29:35 UTC No. 16179937
>>16179769
There are many good math books in english doe
t. pole
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 05:13:41 UTC No. 16181033
>>16176828
i hate textbook screenshot threads
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 05:28:27 UTC No. 16181055
>>16181033
Do they trigger nightmares of your rough days at school?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 01:31:19 UTC No. 16182245
>>16176954
why does linear algebra immediately point to ODE?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 02:14:18 UTC No. 16182285
>>16182245
Bike shedding like this is why I didn't post my own chart.
>Why come you does it dat way?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 03:12:56 UTC No. 16182305
>>16182285
please post it :(
in exchange i’ll post an unique calculus book that probably no one here ever came across and which is a gold nugget
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 04:04:02 UTC No. 16182344
>>16176828
my friend says you probably just failed your real analysis course and are bitter about seeing math done rigorously
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 04:46:56 UTC No. 16182358
>>16182344
Is your... "friend" in the room with us right now?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 04:58:07 UTC No. 16182367
>>16182344
>retarded formatting, bad notation, horrible structure and bad pedagogy is "muh rigorous"
retard tranny faggot
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 08:11:57 UTC No. 16182491
>>16176831
It's also teaching proofs with simple concepts.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 09:42:39 UTC No. 16182542
>>16176828
You don't need this jew shit. Read this instead .
https://archive.org/details/natural
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 10:02:00 UTC No. 16182559
>>16179392
Those meaningless pseudo-definitions are likely later additions to the book. They aren't actually used in anywhere.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 10:26:14 UTC No. 16182581
>>16182559
You never read the book
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 10:34:54 UTC No. 16182594
>>16182581
Not all of it. But is what I said wrong? Nope.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 23:18:39 UTC No. 16183491
>>16176828
bump