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#1 2009-07-28 02:05:42
- Ubergeek
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Math books, math education
Talk about math books in general, discuss your favorites, review some.
Discuss about math education in the U.S or in whatever your country is.
Let me start, my favorite math book is College Algebra by Murray R. Spiegel (from Schaum's outline series). It is the most complete book in terms of exercises and detailed solutions, I just love it. 
About math education, I heard there is (or was recently) a crisis in the US, and that Danica Mckellar's books were a response to it, to help it, and also to diminish the gender gap in math. Here's her first book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452289491/ref=s9_simz_gw_s16_p14_t2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=06FBBSMTA4T980R9NC4J&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846.
What do you think?
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
Bertrand Russell
#2 2009-07-28 05:13:44
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Re: Math books, math education
Talking about your favorite math book, these are the ones that worked for me.
Numerical Methods that usually work Forman S. Acton
Numerical Analysis Francis Scheid
Generatingfunctionology Herbert S. Wilf
A=B Doron Zeilberger
Applied Combinatorics Alan Tucker
Finite Mathematics Mizrahi and Sullivan
Experimental Mathematics Jonathan Borwein
Mathematics of Choice Ivan Niven
Recreations in the theory of numbers Albert Beiler
Finite Differences Murray Spiegel
Statistics Robert Mason
Last edited by bobbym (2009-07-28 05:14:44)
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#4 2009-10-30 02:01:47
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Re: Math books, math education
I Havet Read Any Math books I just do homework. my Brother Got books he is In College So He have A Lot of College Books.