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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by westurner on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:15AM (#21851255)
This is a good list of books. Unfortunately many of the links are broken? Probably just my luck, but the first few "with Sage" books I excitedly selected unfortunately 404'd. I'll send an email.

> Moreover, the American Institute of Mathematics maintains a list of approved open-source textbooks. https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

I also like the (free) Green Tea Press books: Think Stats, Think Bayes, Think DSP, Think Complexity, Modeling and Simulation in Python, Think Python 2e: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist https://greenteapress.com/wp/

And IDK how many times I've recommended the book for the OCW "Mathematics for Computer Science" course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

There may be a newer edition than the 2017 version of the book: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by throwaway17_17 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:02PM (#21852146)
Does anyone have a good strategy for archiving and downloading the textbooks from aimath.org? They are all excellently formatted in HTML, but I am not certain what the best way to get the complete book would be.
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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by BlackLotus89 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:51PM (#21852401)
When I have books in form of webpages I normally write a small crawler in python, extract the text div with beautifulsoup, add <hn> tags for chapter names and throw them all together in html form. Add a cover image and combine everything with pandoc.

Nothing fancy but works reliable in an automated fashion

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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by integricho on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:55AM (#21852101)
I've found MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science" actually hard to read, and in my opinion it cannot really be called a proper book, more like a collection of notes, as it skips over many details, jumping to conclusions, definitions, results, without giving you an intuitive explanation. In that regards it's actually hard to follow.
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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by generationP on Saturday December 21, 2019 @01:01PM (#21852451)
It's fast-going. You may want to start with something more introductory, like:

Levin http://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi3.html

Hammack https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

the early parts of Newstead https://infinitedescent.xyz/

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