Where to Buy Math Books
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- What are the best places to buy math books? Do you have any advice?
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There are so many awesome math books on the Internet Archive. Some you can borrow for an hour and some you can read freely. I believe it's a conglomerate of libraries, just amazing.
That's a great idea!
There’s an even better site called Anna’s archive that scrapes all the books from every other shadow library including IA, and as such it has the most extensive math PDF collection on the internet
No borrowing either you just get downloads for free
The springer hardcovers are so tempting to collect. I have the advanced linear algebra one.
I find the best time for used books on Amazon is after the Spring Semester when some or returning rented books or re-selling their books. I look for books above acceptable or Good condition. If it is an advanced subject, I will typically purchase new books, unless that ever-so-often-used book comes along. ONE BIG NOTE, I like to buy books that come with solutions manuals.
This is awesome I was looking for this kind of video yesterday
love your bookshelf!
"Complex Variables" by John W. Dettman is a great read: the first part covers the geometry/topology of the complex space from a Mathematician's perspective, and the second part covers application of complex analysis to differential equations and integral transformations, etc. from a Physicist's perspective.
I always wanted this type of video ty
I have had good luck using Alibris. The stated condition has always been accurate. In fact, sometimes they are in better than stated condition. Also, the local used book store. I just found a copy of Calculus and Analytic Geometry by Thomas, Third Edition, Second Printing for less than $10 US which I wouldn't have picked up except I saw your video.
I bought a lot of my math textbooks at the Goodwill and they were like $3.00 each. A lot of my calculus and statistics textbooks came from my Goodwill where I live. Have a productive day :)
Thanks 👍 love your video
Yes, please do a video on Dover books! 😊
Don't forget to look through the Salvation Army and Thrift Stores. They can be pennies on the dollar, are in surprisingly good condition and many of those books will likely be from former students of local colleges and universities. I have found materials from East Carolina, from UNC Wilmington, from local community colleges etc. I have acquired a full plastic tote of books for less than thirty dollars total from a couple runs to various thrift stores and the Salvation Army. I also still have my Sullivan Algebra and Trig book, which was used for College Algebra and pre-calc at Johnston Community College until the fall of 2010.
I'll add to this that some Goodwill thrift stores have eBay shops where you can pick up used textbooks. They are often some of the cheapest on eBay when you can find them.
If you have a St. Vincent dePaul thrift store near you, their used book sections are incredible. I regularly see interesting and useful books there on math (and other subjects that I'm into).
I scour thrift stores, flea markets, and library discard sales. Used bookstores near a college campus are a great source. Sometimes I find a student solution manual and then buy the textbook that goes with it. Some textbooks have a section in the front called "Additional Resources for Students" that gives the ISBN# of the solution manual. I got a job as a math tutor at a local 2 year college and publishers would send me the text that the class was using because I was on the faculty.
Local thrift stores near major universities. Those engineering majors drop off a lot more books than you would think.
In the past, some departments would organize book sales with material donated by professors. I was able to pick up a copy of a differential game theory book commissioned by the navy (I think, the book is floating around here somewhere). My math department would also have a table in the main office area where people would leave books they wanted to give away.
Yes I have some Dover. Thriftbooks, AbesBooks, Alibris, Book Depository. Elsevier, SpringerLInk, Science Direct are the bigtime publishers but expensive. In between McGraw Hill, Addison Wesley, Harcourt Brace, Schaum.
Great video!
Thanks!
That book collection would rival many university libraries
Your college Library will often sell older outdated math books. I have scored some incredible deals on some awesome books there. Local used book stores, thrift books and ebay.
The 'go-to' place for acquiring used classic and collectable mathematics books is ... Powell's Bookstore in Portland, OR (which houses books of all kinds in five buildings). It is definitely worth a trip to the Pacific Northwest if you've never been there, but they also conduct online sales.
Oh how interesting. I will check this out. Thank you so much:)
I visited Powell's in 99', the parking garage downtown was a super tight squeeze!
Do a video on all physics books please. Some dover books are not good because of the font such as thermodynamics and statistical mechanics by landsberg.
calc II sealed the deal for me as well.
I started collecting books before the internet. Second-hand bookstores were everywhere and (more pertinently) it was nearly impossible for booksellers to check competing price-points at other stores, so you could really get some great deals. Those days are long gone. Sad. One thing I would recommend that is still relevant today is attending academic conferences. Scientific book publishers often set up booths there to flog their latest books at discount prices, and if you get there just before the conference ends, the discounts are even steeper, and very expensive books on display can go for a song (they'd rather not ship or carry unsold books back).
You can find many older texts online for free as PDF files.
Thrift Books and Abe are both quite good for physical books...and there are countless bookstores on line.
Don't be afraid to search overseas as well; the price of shipping can still be cheaper than buying a text brand new.
Goodwill warehouse, 5 books for 99 cents. The resellers like the latest editions as they are more valuable. For my personal use I love the older cloth bound math books. It's hit or miss, but I will at least find one great math book everytime I go.
Dover don't ship outside the USA, so you need to buy them via another seller if you are outside the USA.
Abebooks is where I go to, with a fair amount of caution, I always check on other booksellers first.
I have a very old edition of the Lang Algebra. I wonder how many changes there were for the latest version. But yes, it's very slick.
Used bookstores were where I found mine. We did have one of the biggest used bookstores in the province within an hour drive. A wealth of old math books in that store. It closed 10 or so years ago as the owners couldn’t find anyone to take over.
Re: expensive books. Twenty-five years ago a Pielou book on mathematical ecology was over $100. It was only a 100 pages or so. I ended up photocopying the library book. I should check if recent publications have brought that price down to reasonable levels.
You hit all the places I look when I decide I want a book. Amazon, abebooks, and ebay.
Price of Baby Rudin hardcover new is about $160. The first edition was about $8 hardcover new in 1972. Sad how book prices have gone up so much.
I bought some Dover books many years ago on Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Set Theory & Logic, Partial Differential Equations, and Topology. And to be honest I only understand ODEs and Linear algebra. The other topics are really hard to learn. I'm really bad at proof-based mathematics.
Wonderful
+1 for used books on Amazon. I am an electrical engineer, actually an analog/optoelectronic integrated circuit engineer, and most of the books on the topic (but also more basic ones) are at least 60€, most of them above 100€ and some cost 200€. For simplicity 1€ is roughly 1$. I've bought several books used (as new) on Amazon for 50% to 80% of the original price, and they look brand new.
Ive seen ThriftBooks stickers on some of the editions you've featured.
I've been trying to find the Algebra book by Aurelio Baldor that you recommend and I can only find the Spanish edition online. Any tips on where to get the English edition?
Springer's yellow sale (50% off on mathematics books) will start on 1st March. I think they have the largest selection of mathematical titles. How is their printing and binding quality though? Does anyone have any recent experience with Springer's books?
Hi , what do you think about Gilbert strang's book introduction to linear algebra is it full ?
That’s a very good book!
Hello friend! I second Abebooks!
Do you know where I can get cv Durrell math textbooks known as general math used in Singapore in 1960s
Prowl your local used bookstore; they generally have all kinds of unique goodies.
What about books on base twelve or duodecimal mathematics, or at least the books by the Dozenal Society of America?
I am from Romania and it's hard to buy books in English. To buy from eBay, it's very expensive because they ask for a lot of import fees. But it's cheaper to buy from Amazon because they don't ask for a lot of import fees. Thus, I am forced to buy a lot of English books from Amazon, or directly from the publisher (if the value of the book does not exceed the value of 150 euros, then I am obliged to pay import fees).
Oh wow interesting, I forgot about import fees. Yeah it's crazy how location based it is when it comes to math books. Shipping is a huge deal too.
@@TheMathSorcerer And i have a reason to buy books from the US, and the reason is that there are not a lot of book publishers that publish technical books (math, physics, chemistry, engineering and al the other sciences) in Romania. The only book publishers that are in Romania are the university presses and a couple other smaller publishers.
During the comunist regime, there was a lot more technical books, and a lot more publishers. The biggest of which was Editura Tehnica (the technical press), that pumped out a lot of good books, including a translation of the Feynman physics lectures (which was a bestseller at the time in the country). And not just that, there also were a whole tone of other publishers that published technical books, like: Editura Enciclopedica, Editura Albatros, Editura Tineretului, etc ("Editura" basically mean publisher or press).
So that begs the Question, why did these publishers disappear ? Well because of low interest from the people. After the revolution, book reading really hit a low, a lot of book publishers disappeared. And this struggle continues to this day, Romania is one of the smallest book markets in the EU and Europe, together with all the other post-comunist and post-soviet countrys.
That fate was suffered by a lot of publishers that you call rare (like MIR). They really aren't rare here because they printed books in the thousands. So buying, and collecting books is really a cheap hobby (specially technical books) because they really aren't wanted.
And i don't really read them, because they really are old and i just don't really like the approach. But still, i like buying and preserving them because i am a bibliophile.
Anyway, i hope you like this quite long answer. I just wanted to write about this because i see your videos about MIR, and just wanted to tell you that they really aren't that special, as a book publisher.
eBay and its cheap. I paid about 5 dollars for Algebra & Trigonometry by Michael Sullivan. Got it from a Goodwill seller on eBay. They have a lot of 4 math books I'm considering ordering. An high school textbook on Algebra 2, an abstract algebra book, a book on algebra techniques, and Intermediate algebra. There's another lot of 2 books I want. 1 is calculus and another is linear algebra. Anyway, that's my favorite place to get any kind of books.
so good!!!!!!
@@TheMathSorcerer Please try to make videos on various mathematicians & scientists (On their birthday months) covering their achievements & field of research to inspire people who want to study these subjects.
I've found that if I buy from thrift or goodwill sellers, I end up buying five copies to get one that's in ok shape. They never provide pictures of the item and they routinely lie about the condition of the item.
@@IcyTorment. Concerning math books I only ask the answers don't be filled out already. Concerning books besides math I've bought on eBay-- I bought a book on acting from eBay and every page in the book popped right out of the book when I opened it up. I mean, whatever was supposed to hold the pages in the book just crumbles I didn't pay very much for it but that did kind of bother when every page fell out of it the first time I opened it. I didn't complain to eBay just let it go Another time I ordered horror novels from eBay Except they weren't horror novels I found out they were really mystery novels when they came But the seller had listet them as horror I'm mostly happy with ebay I tried to buy only from sellers with 99 percent rating I'm not to picky about a books condition but I prefer its pages don't all fall out at once
A lot of books that were Dover before are now under the name of scholars select. I got a 500 page book from them recently (on Amazon) for just 5 dollars that was of equal to (if not better) quality than those overpriced Springer books that are sold.
Thrift Books! I avoid giving $$$ to Jeff Bezos whenever possible. I'm not crossing that picket line, thank you!
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@@jongxina3595 no
Unless it’s something like cengage
I go to thrift stores, too. But keep in mind bed bugs and check their books carefully.
@@greenmartian5058thrift books is a website. A good one too
I get my books from Biblio when buying online. I use Half Price Books when shopping at a brick-and-mortar store.
Thank you motivating me in mathematics I'm pephias mwiinga I wish to be a professor in mathematics and physics science. I'm studying my first degree in mathematics and physics.
I found Dover books hard to read with the tiny lines.
Damn I'm in south Africa and books are very expensive here. I went on the ebay website and the shipping cost is more then some of the second hand text books.
i studied lang but still do not have personal copy
Do you also buy very advanced math books like algebric geometry, class field theory etc , if so please make videos on them also
yes I do! I will!
If you know a mathematician they sometimes give you books when they reorganize their shelves. Good luck understanding them
One place you can get free math books is from the dumpster behind Half Price Books! 😄
LOL! I would totally be interested in that:)
@@TheMathSorcerer My son (who's into the whole "diving" thing) brought me a 1930s copy of "Barlow's Tables" published in London. The spine cap opened up and there is actually a section from a period London newspaper that was used on the binding! The book now sits on an end table in my living room. It's both amazing and sad what gets thrown away.
Ah... a book-a-holic after my own heart!
Oh, I just want to slip in, there are some amazing maths book by French publishers, that have never been translated into English.
LibGen all the way!!
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Here in delhi there is a market called new street we buy all the expensive expensive books at very affordable prices.
Btw sir how much math should I know to get me through my electrical engineering .
Love what you do 😊
Cool! Electrical engineers study a lot of math! I know they learn a lot of calculus and they do a lot with Laplace Transforms.
At the end of each semester at university, a lot of students will leave their math books in the hallways.
I just use Amazon to order math books.
i prefer ebook than hardcopy.
interesting:)
Estate sales. Every now and then someone dies and leaves behind their math books which their heirs can't wait to sell off.
I live in Syria, but I can't buy math books because of sanctions.
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Talk about books that are moldy... older books can be moldy and are a pain to your health
abebooks
First!
Good for you ))
I have more than 7,000 books.
Holy molly!
Thrift books!
Libgen for ebooks lol, but hard copies are just better
eBay, thriftbooks, alibis, half price book store, Abe, for starters
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