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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by playing_colours on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:11AM (#22943614)
Can you please share some books you enjoyed?
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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by madhadron on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:59AM (#22946236)
The ones I spent most time with were volumes titled (translated) "Selected problems in higher mathematics." I worked out of a German translation for one volume while I learned a smattering of Russian and then the Russian for a second one. This was to fill in assumed background in things like integration that was assumed by Landau & Lifshitz.

It's been long enough where I have no idea of the author.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by jojobas on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:37AM (#22945378)
What subjects are you after?

Also, the enjoyment was not supposed to be from reading the book, it was from passing the exam.

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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by mesaframe on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:56PM (#22947622)
Not OP, if you know any great English translated Linear Algebra title or statistics.
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Re:Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison t... by jojobas on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:15PM (#22950782)
Unfortunately the ones I know were not translated.
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