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Re:Free Math Books by posix_me_less on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:38AM (#25832441)
Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?
Re:Free Math Books by mathnmusic on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:29AM (#25832826)
I have been adding a number of these free books at https://learnawesome.org/

Do you really care about the format being PDF or is it about the books being FREE? I'd like to make common queries like yours easier. LearnAwesome is open-source, so of course you're free to contribute: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn

Re:Free Math Books by Spooky23 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:05AM (#25833059)
Nerds love to bike shed crap like this and bite the hand that feeds.

To paraphrase a typical rant: “Making knowledge free and accessible is useless unless a libre format is used like Markdown.” Lol

The PDF beef is funnier in that people usually don’t know why they are morally opposed to PDF, it usually boils down to not liking Adobe Acrobat a decade ago, not accepting that page format preservation is a thing, or some beef with zooming or something. End of the day, it seeks to be digital paper.

End of the day, it’s an open standard with multiple implementations. Just by virtue of the US Federal Courts using it for millions of documents it will be usable for the foreseeable future, well beyond our lifetimes. (And there are many similar or even bigger examples)

Re:Free Math Books by ravi-delia on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:08PM (#25835648)
Not just that, but if you actually look at the implementation its pretty understandable. 90% of use cases are covered by the easiest parts to parse too. PDF might not be perfect, but honestly not much comes close.
Re:Free Math Books by mattowen_uk on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:52AM (#25832981)
Oooh this is like a dmoz.org list from yesteryear when the web was useful. Bookmarked, Cheers!
Re:Free Math Books by enriquto on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:54AM (#25832543)
> Does anybody know of an awesome list that has more of these kinds of "pdf textbooks" on math/phys/engineering?

Go to John Baez's awesome list "How to Learn Math and Physics":

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html

And then to Library Genesis.

Re:Free Math Books by human4fter4ll on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:10AM (#25833093)
Thank you so much!
Re:Free Math Books by asicsp on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:48AM (#25832955)
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/m...

Kenneth Kuttler's books doesn't seem to be there though.

Re:Free Math Books by posix_me_less on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:56AM (#25870859)
Re:Free Math Books by ivan_ah on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:33PM (#25836835)
Not sure if you needed PDF specifically, but this site has a lot of good OER textbooks, digitized nicely as HTML + MathJax: https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves
Re:Free Math Books by gmfawcett on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:26PM (#25835914)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/ is a good place to find free titles.
Re:Free Math Books by mvalcic on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:10AM (#25834840)
Check out the Open Textbook Library:

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Re:Free Math Books by aungmyohtet on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:29AM (#25835094)
Thank you.
Re:Free Math Books by ithrow on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:19AM (#25834966)
openstax.org