https://www.ebay.com/usr/3tallboys"I have collected undergrad and graduate textbooks in mathematics, applied mathematics (today a computer discipline),physics, quantum mechanics, chemistry, materials science, mechanics, and engineering written during the early 50’s through the early 70’s. The majority are published by Addison-Wesley as you can see in one of the images above.
I had noticed with the advent of affordable/available computers, that the curriculum being taught, and the way problems were being solved in these advanced subjects was changing.
Instead of solving the answers to tough problems with elegant formulas of nature, there was a tendency to collect a bunch of raw data, then crunch the numbers to come up with the formulas. Which is the best way in many respects, but the student loses some fundamental understanding of the process.
Because of worldwide pandemic issues; many of you instructors are kinda scrambling to turn your ways of teaching into cyber lessons. I am selling my books as a resource from a slightly different way of teaching the subject. Most of the books have problems or exercises at the end of chapters. And half of those have the answers in the back of the book.
As an additional perspective, I will sell about 12 advanced college textbooks from the early 50’s that have been translated from Russian, used in Soviet cold war era universities. I may sell them as sets to keep them together.
I am an older guy and feel I can list 10 or 12 books per week so bear with me. I have some duplicates so you may see repeats bubble up. I will send out the books once per week via USPS media mail to keep costs down."
GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL, KEEP THOSE YOUNG MINDS INTERESTED.
