Now let's get colleges to use books like this when they teach their courses... (Reply #31)

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Sun Jul 24, 2022, 09:29 PM

Silent3 (14,304 posts)

31. Now let's get colleges to use books like this when they teach their courses...

...instead of using needlessly-updated, ever-changing (but for no good reason) textbooks as a profit center.

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37 replies	Author	Time	Post
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [View all]	mahatmakanejeeves	Jul 2022	OP
Cool, I want to check this out.	2naSalit	Jul 2022	#1
I Thought The Same!	ProfessorGAC	Jul 2022	#20
Isaac Newton knew "infinitesimals"-never observed- are a fraud	pirsquared	Jul 2022	#24
The bit about two tides per day not making sense is especially interesting.	Towlie	Jul 2022	#25
2 high tides every day: Theory of Gravity disproved! Flat earthers confused.	pirsquared	Jul 2022	#28
I'm hoping it will help me learn it...	2naSalit	Jul 2022	#32
Thanks for posting. n/t	John1956PA	Jul 2022	#2
Thanks	Lochloosa	Jul 2022	#3
K&R n/t	Alice Kramden	Jul 2022	#4
I must've lucked out and had a teacher who learned from that system (book)...	Hugin	Jul 2022	#5
Old textbooks cost almost nothing and sometimes covered math from K-12 in one cheap book	lostnfound	Jul 2022	#6
where's those ebooks they said we would be using by now?	mopinko	Jul 2022	#8
Some teachers and professors have abandoned traditional textbooks.	hunter	Jul 2022	#19
I See That A Lot!	ProfessorGAC	Jul 2022	#21
They found a way to charge for those, too	Sympthsical	Jul 2022	#30
ThNks! That's terrific!	PCIntern	Jul 2022	#7
Math: The language of measuring	sanatanadharma	Jul 2022	#9
du	dweller	Jul 2022	#10
That's a lot to ponder. n/t	Harker	Jul 2022	#16
When AI enables us to speak to a computer to solve problems in math	BSdetect	Jul 2022	#11
Everybody uses calculators and computers now.	hunter	Jul 2022	#27
K&R, Simple explanations from someone who understands the subject are usually the best !!	uponit7771	Jul 2022	#12
At the age of 47 I took calculus for fun.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jul 2022	#13
I took it between my junior and senior years.	Igel	Jul 2022	#17
I think its because you care	jcgoldie	Jul 2022	#34
True.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jul 2022	#36
Awesome	Johnny2X2X	Jul 2022	#14
Excellent, thanks for posting. K&R.	c-rational	Jul 2022	#15
I had a multivariable calculus professor (for my 3rd semester of calc)	BumRushDaShow	Jul 2022	#18
The print. Really? And some of us are visual learners.	Baitball Blogger	Jul 2022	#22
It is an excellent and well known textbook.	dalton99a	Jul 2022	#23
TY! n/t	EndlessWire	Jul 2022	#26
Hey, gang, it's at Gutenberg!	ironflange	Jul 2022	#29
Now let's get colleges to use books like this when they teach their courses...	Silent3	Jul 2022	#31
This doesn't surprise me at all	jobendorfer	Jul 2022	#33
Cool link thanks!	perfessor	Jul 2022	#35
Would be outlawed in Florida. Why they even have a whole chapter called Integration!	retread	Jul 2022	#37

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