Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by est on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:30AM
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Is there a modern equivalent of this book?
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Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by dartharva on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:36AM
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Why? It's pure mathematics, that book can't ever get obsolete.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by wbl on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @07:18AM
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When I was starting college I took an analysis course based on Kolmogorov and Fomin. We didn't work with all sorts of special functions, but focused much more on functional analysis, measure, and multidimensional functions. Later we did Fourier transforms for any locally compact abelian group. What's important in math changes.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by dartharva on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:28PM
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But this specific book only covers elementary-to-intermediate topics in Algebra, Geometry and Calculus from the looks of it. It isn't likely to change as much at all.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by pmoriarty on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:13AM
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Books can have mistakes. Other editions could correct these mistakes, provide more elegant proofs, more fruitful approaches to solving problems, more understandable language, or more standard terminology.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:03AM
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Not going obsolete doesn't mean not improvable. Seems a reasonable question.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by masklinn on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:12AM
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Assuming it’s Carr’s, IIRC it’s a rather odd style of work, it’s a summary of the state of basic mathematics rather than a textbook per se, with pages of theorems with little explanation.
So a modern version would at most be a different idea of what the core theorems should be.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by eeegnu on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:03AM
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Note the massive errata list which is very likely just the scratching the surface. Later editions tend to either implement these corrections, or have a more complete list.
Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
by commandlinefan on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:02AM
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> that book can't ever get obsolete
Math doesn't change, but language and printing technology do.