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Anonymous Sun 03 May 18:36:40 2020 No.11633051 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11633057 >>11633090

Just finished reading this: it was great. Thinking of studying calculus next. Is Spivak's "Calculus" a good choice?

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:38:41 No.11633056 Report

Quoted By: >>11633090

bro you just learned how to do arithmetic and you wanna jump straight into complex shizz like derivatives and integrals?
bro

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:38:45 No.11633057 Report

Quoted By: >>11633096

>>11633051
>Is Spivak's "Calculus" a good choice?
If you just like math its fine but if you want to do anything with it, engineering, physics, I recommend going with Stewart.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:43:00 No.11633069 Report

Quoted By: >>11633090 >>11633096

Spivak is probably above your level right now, as you need some minimal knowledge in algebra and geometry for it. I'd recommend "Algebraic Geometry" by Hartshorne for you to learn before diving into the scary world of calculus.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:49:56 No.11633090 Report

Quoted By: >>11633103 >>11633117

>>11633051
is this bait?
>>11633056
>>11633069
this book is a way higher level than spivak

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:51:23 No.11633096 Report

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>>11633057
You're right, I'm more interested in engineering. Gonna go with Stewart next.
>>11633069
Hmm learning basic algebra at the level of Hartshorne might be a good idea. I thought I would just pick up the bits and pieces of algebra needed on the go. You're probably right tho: shouldn't skip the fundamentals.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:52:46 No.11633103 Report

Quoted By: >>11633116

>>11633090
>is this bait?
What do you mean?
> this book is a way higher level than spivak
You mean Serre's book? So should I just read Spivak then?

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:57:04 No.11633116 Report

Quoted By: >>11633125

>>11633103
if you read serre and you dont know calculus yet, sure read spivak.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 18:58:12 No.11633117 Report

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>>11633090
>is this bait?
of course it's bait you dumbass. The latter half of Serre is hard analysis.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 19:00:01 No.11633125 Report

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>>11633116
Thanks! My main interest in calculus is because I want to understand integration on locally compact groups and how it relates to number theory, specifically Tate's thesis.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 19:22:10 No.11633208 Report

Quoted By: >>11633220 >>11633237

Why does /sci/ worship this book so much?

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 19:25:38 No.11633220 Report

Quoted By: >>11633237

>>11633208
It's an excellent meme. You could probably argue it's the single tersest math textbook ever published and it has the same title as the textbooks they give to 4th graders.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 19:30:07 No.11633237 Report

Quoted By: >>11633354

>>11633208
Most likely because of this meme.
>>11633220
>single tersest math textbook ever published
That's Gelfand and Manin's Homological Algebra.

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Anonymous Sun 03 May 2020 20:06:53 No.11633354 Report

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>>11633237
Shut up, it's a good book.

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