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Re:Don't Glorify Dropping Out by astrofinch on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:39PM (#2017919)
>Outside of programming, you will find drastically less information online for free.

Here are 5 freely available introductory calculus books.

http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/03/04/028253.shtml

Re:Don't Glorify Dropping Out by dhume on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:20PM (#2018108)
I don't think anyone is claiming that there aren't freely available resources for learning the basics of other fields, so this isn't much of a counterexample.
Re:Don't Glorify Dropping Out by astrofinch on Sunday December 26, 2010 @07:35PM (#2041475)
Free graduate-level graph theory book that I found when I was interested in graph theory: http://diestel-graph-theory.com/basic.html