Ranking Math Book Publishers + My Favorite Books

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  • @MathematicalToolbox
    @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Today, we are gonna be rating math book publishers. This is not a complete list, but the publishers listed here are those of which I have five or more books. I made no attempt whatsoever at being objective. If your favorite publisher gets rated lower than you'd like, it is because I personally do not find utility in their books. It does not mean that I believe that that publisher should go out of business.
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    Amazon Affiliate/Paid Links:
    Dover
    Probability and Stochastic Processes by Melsa and Sage: amzn.to/3UokPqO
    Real Variables by Ash: amzn.to/40i8fx1
    Applied Functional Analysis by Griffel: amzn.to/4e0pZQZ
    Springer
    PDEs and Solitary Waves Theory by Wazwaz: amzn.to/4dUx5q4
    Linear and Nonlinear Integral Equations by Wazwaz: amzn.to/4dZmoCv
    Numerical Methods for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations with White Noise by Zhang and Karniadakis: amzn.to/4f9diEA
    Stochastic Calculus in Manifolds by Emery: amzn.to/4fkeEMO
    The Classical Theory of Integral Equations by Zemyan: amzn.to/4hgth5t
    WorldScientific
    Informal Introduction To Stochastic Calculus With Applications: amzn.to/4ffu5Wd
    A First Course In Integral Equations by Wazwaz: amzn.to/3YCLnHB
    Stochastic Geometric Analysis with Applications by Calin: amzn.to/3AbHy2B
    A Guide to Distribution Theory and Fourier Transforms by Strichartz: amzn.to/48mp4Jp
    McGraw Hill
    Link to Schaum's Outlines series: amzn.to/3UmeL2j
    Wiley
    Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications by Kreyszig: amzn.to/3Uj28VF
    Integral Equations by Jerri: no link to the 2nd ed. Here is the 1st ed.: amzn.to/3YAUPer
    Introduction to Real Analysis by Bartle and Sherbert: amzn.to/4fe1YXB
    PHILearning
    Complex Variables and Special Functions by Patra: amzn.to/3A8LLnN
    Intro. to the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations: amzn.to/4hcSf5L
    A First Course in Functional Analysis by Nair: amzn.to/3NELZWI
    AMS
    Link to Graduate Studies in Mathematics Search: amzn.to/3NZm6kR
    Lebesgue Integral for Undergraduates by Johnston: amzn.to/4e6btqO
    New Age International
    Measure Theory and Integration by Barra: amzn.to/4fcus4B
    Pearson
    Linear Algebra with Applications by Leon: amzn.to/3UoluZw
    Thomas' Calculus 15th ed.: amzn.to/48jQMXg
    CRC
    Integral Transforms and their Applications by Debnath: amzn.to/3AdmKaT
    Applied Calculus of Variations for Engineers 3rd ed. by Komzsik: amzn.to/3YzKj7f
    Functional Analysis for Physics and Engineering by Shima: amzn.to/4e22gzZ
    Cambridge
    Mathematical Analysis by Binmore: amzn.to/4f2zoJ1
    Linear Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Theory by Pivato: amzn.to/4hh8fUd

  • @AliBadaraTraore
    @AliBadaraTraore หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For what is worth, Cambridge University Press, such as Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, etc, is more focus on every possibles topics rather than only maths. For example, Harvard Press, Princeton Press and MIT Press have publish many classics in Economics (well-written and rigorous textbooks by Jean Tirole, Acemoglu, Thomas Sargent, Robert Lucas, etc).
    Cambridge Press is very well know for probability and statistics at very high level (Measure-Theoretic, Non-asymptotic, Empirical Processes, M-Estimation, High-Dimensional, etc).

  • @edwardgraham-j8l
    @edwardgraham-j8l หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Before Christmas I stumbled onto your sites ... what a find! I especially appreciate your straightforward analysis of various textbooks! Thank you!

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @edwardgraham-j8l Thanks! I am grateful that you are here as well.
      What's your favorite publisher, and why?

  • @Edward-zw9ld
    @Edward-zw9ld 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great overview video of math publishers! Very practical and organized well. I agree with most of your analysis , especially with Dover and Springer and Pearson. Kudos and thanks!

  • @TranquilSeaOfMath
    @TranquilSeaOfMath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't normally like tier videos. I do like that you showed, and discussed, example books from the publishers. I would flip your bottom 2 tiers personally. I think CRC is a smaller press and doesn't get as much love. I have a couple of their books. One is a very nice reference book. I like the energy that you brought to this video.

  • @HomoGeniusPDE
    @HomoGeniusPDE 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    AMS being D tier is tragic. So many of the best books are published through AMS. I say that as a graduate student so maybe that's where we disagree, they are some of the best reference texts. Evan's PDE's? Give's me night terrors from when I first read it, but ANYTHING you wana know is in there and its presented reasonably well. Also my favorite algebra book, Algebra 0 by Allufi. I probably wouldn't rank them S tier, since their books are pretty dense, but below Wiley? Tragic.

    • @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd
      @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He has whola ams shelf in background 😂

    • @raba2d723
      @raba2d723 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the quality of their text is lacking though.

    • @HomoGeniusPDE
      @HomoGeniusPDE 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@raba2d723 how so?

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @HomoGeniusPDE (awesome name, btw) I was hoping one of you AMS dudes would chime in and give them some love. Thank you!
      @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd I actually lol'd reading that. Thanks to you as well!

  • @douglasstrother6584
    @douglasstrother6584 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ... then the fight broke out in the Library.

  • @curtispenner2
    @curtispenner2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The book offering is one thing but the quality and physical readability is what should be rated since you live with the book for a long time.
    Springer’s pages are so shiny that it is difficult to read.
    Cambridge is the worse. The binding is so tight, you can hardly read the pages plus the pages are extremely shiny so you can’t use direct lighting.
    McGraw-Hill has been on of the best.

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You make a good point. But honestly I don't share your struggle with Springer books. The only one that feels that way that I remember is Axler's Measure Theory book. Probably half of my Springer books are MyCopy.
      My Pivato book actually has broken binding, but I just thought that the seller got a bad batch. Didn't think it was widespread. Thank you for sharing!
      Would you mind sharing some of your favorite books?

    • @curtispenner2
      @curtispenner2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ I return to the International Series of Applied and Pure [Mathematics, Physics] often. Some are dated, but they were written with clear text and have an understanding of the audience.
      I was a theoretical physicist, now retired, but still read textbooks.

  • @BreezeTalk
    @BreezeTalk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very nice!

  • @seanhunter111
    @seanhunter111 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Weird putting Cambridge University Press so low when they publish Spivak. Just that on its own is enough to make them S-tier in my opinion, but the other CUP books I have are also excellent (eg Kleppner and Kolenkow etc).

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've heard of Spivak, but I do not own it. I've also only heard of it being used as a first book on calculus. I don't have much experience at all with it other than it has a reputation for being difficult. Perhaps one day, I'll get my hands on a copy. Thanks for sharing.

    • @seanhunter111
      @seanhunter111 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@MathematicalToolbox It's a very cool book. The problems really make you think and there's a great bibliography with suggestions for further reading at the back where he makes a lot of personal observations about his recommendations. There's also an amazing chapter showing how you can use calculus to derive and prove Kepler's laws using Newton's laws.

  • @MrPrezer
    @MrPrezer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You never know with Dover...Some are quite good!Some are..almost unreadable..

  • @BreezeTalk
    @BreezeTalk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that intro is my bane of yt, “heywahsupguysinthiswideoweeegnsnabeloojijf at” 😂

  • @ArpitKharbandaIsAwesome
    @ArpitKharbandaIsAwesome 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    What about MIR Publishers?

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't have any of those. What are some books I should check out or what are some of your favorites?

    • @314calls
      @314calls 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​​@@MathematicalToolboxohh you'll be surprised to see how good they are. I'm currently reading Equations of Mathematical Physics by AV Bitsadze and it's in a way a mini course on pde , complex variables and integral equations with emphasis on physics as the name suggests.
      it's great so far and would be a good one for you to show on the channel since these are the topics you talk about the most:)

  • @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd
    @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oxford math series is very good ı think

    • @MathematicalToolbox
      @MathematicalToolbox  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes! I only have a couple of books from them, though. The "How to Think About Analysis" and algebra book too are cool. What is your favorite from Oxford?

    • @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd
      @aybarsyalcin-zq5pd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MathematicalToolbox well to be honest I’m not at the level that I can understand throughly but it has masterful works like geometry of 4 manifolds and riemann surfaces from Danoldson and ı also liked kantorowitz modern analysis a lot :)

  • @PeteyWolvy74
    @PeteyWolvy74 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tata McGraw Hill is very good in my country. So is Cengage.
    Another opinion : The cold war era Russian publishers and authors were also top tier.