🧵 Old Books vs New Books
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:38:24 UTC No. 16288894
What do you prefer when studying math and physics? Old books that are considered classics and were written in the 60s, 80s, etc. Or modern books written in this century? I tend to go towards newer books since they should be, on theory, more in touch with modern research and concepts.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:58:02 UTC No. 16289108
>>16288894
Usually modern books. Older texts I find hard to read sometimes, due to old fashioned writing style or them being too succinct. I do like that they were fairly small back then. As in width. Which made them easy to carry around and to move your eyes through. Now everything is getting textbook sized.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:24:36 UTC No. 16289525
>60s, 80s
>old
Come on man.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:37:26 UTC No. 16289539
>>16288894
I find old books are concise, get to the point, are clearer in their exposition and also clarify motivation much better than most modern books.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:00:36 UTC No. 16289565
>>16288894
It depends entirely on the author and his style.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:16:07 UTC No. 16289801
>>16288894
Older books for the most part. They're less full of bullshit and fluff and we're written before modern education was dumbed down. There's a reason gatekeeping occurs and it's not always just ego.
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:36:02 UTC No. 16289828
>Old books
>60s, 80s, etc
he doesn't know about Euclid's Elements
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:11:35 UTC No. 16289878
Sometimes older books and those from different cultural contexts can be a big help as an additional resource, but I use modern books as the core.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:26:17 UTC No. 16290776
mostly older books, while reading numerical formats i personally like their esthetic. I also like when their contexts tends to explain the reasons at the origin of some notations or conventions that have losed their primary sense nowadays.
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:27:50 UTC No. 16290778
>>16289525
>>16289828
Waste of time to read anything older than that
Anonymous at Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:29:29 UTC No. 16290780
mostly older books, even while reading numerical formats I personally like their esthetic. I also like it when their contexts tend to explain the reasons for the origin of some notations or conventions that have lost their primary sense nowadays.