Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources

Re:Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources by throwaway_pdp09 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:52PM (#22713401)

I utterly agree with @Koshkin. the monetary cost of a book is virtually irrelevant compared to the days or weeks time cost in reading it.

I take your 2nd para in a way, the cost of a book being so cheap when I do read up on something I tend to buy 2, sometimes 3, books on the subject so where I get stuck on one the other will see me through.

Still, I am discomforted by your book-buying habits; a book unread is a valuable resource wasted :) But each to their own way.

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Re:Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources by phonebucket on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:18PM (#22722842)

> Still, I am discomforted by your book-buying habits; a book unread is a valuable resource wasted :) But each to their own way.

There are lots of fantastic books out there, and only so much time to read them. Sometimes I buy some with the intention of reading them later. But reading books properly takes time, so it's inevitable that I fall behind.

Also, lots of the techincal monographs I buy have some overlapping contents with others I own.

I can buy a book for a single chapter. That's the only way to get that chapter, so it justifies the purchase to me, even if the subjects covered overlap with other books I own.

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Re:Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources by jonsen on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:04PM (#22713926)

>a book unread is a valuable resource wasted

“Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones”:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilib...

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Re:Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources by throwaway_pdp09 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:29PM (#22714087)

I can't even tell if that heap of twattery is self-aware enough to be parody.

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Re:Real Not Complex: Free Math Resources by SaxonRobber on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:42PM (#22714534)

Framing this on my blog

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