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Can someone please help me find Zumdahl and DeCoste: Chemical Principles, 8th edition?

I can't find it, and I would really like to have 8th edition

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>>8351281
This is 7th edition

>>8351281
>Goldstein.
>>>/trash/

>>8351372
t. brainlet

>>8351281

(((((Goldstein)))))

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>>8351282

>Zumdahl

>>8351913
pls anon no b-b-bullly

any1 halp?

>>8351681
Goldstein is one of the plebiest books out there.
Go read Arnold, Marsden, or Landau and check back

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>>8351976

wasn't criticising man - Zumdahl is king

>>8351281
>reading jew books
wew lad

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Let's go boys

>>8352051
Daily reminder that synthetic chemistry isn't science
>>>/ck/

>>8352084

good try anon, maybe you're lucky in other areas of life

>>8352035
jew book? what the fuck is a jew book?

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>>8351694
>>8351372
>>8352035
/pol/, you have to go back

>>8352381
>/pol/, you have to go back
It's not about the possible Jewish surname.
The book is simply TRASH.
Use (((Arnol'd))) instead.

How does /sci/ efficiently extract information and learn from textbooks?

I'm planning to read through the thing and write summaries after some paragraphs or after a chapter.

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>>8351282
>Zumdahl

>>8352600
can someone explain this meme? Also has anyone managed to find that edition?

>>8352599
I just read a chapter once then go for a walk at the park and figure out everything I'm my head.
I retrieve information years later.
Stay mad brainlets.

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>>8352600
s-stop bullying me! i said stop it!

does anyone have the 8th edition of it?

Quantum Mechanics, Griffiths

Is there even another real option?

>>8353569
what's up with the snake

>>8354652
1/2
I had a strange dream the other day. I was riding the bus when all of a sudden this huge black snake head with retarded-looking eyes pops through the window and screams loudly "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" The bus had just stopped beside the library, and I ran inside as quickly as possible; the snake head was now chasing me around as I frantically searched for the legendary book among the shelves. I spotted the distinctive blue cover and ran toward it, the huge head inches from my ass. With great force I pulled the book from the shelf and instinctively directed it at the black head which by now was dripping with saliva at the mouth. It disappeared as it made contact with the book, disintegrating into a flurry of glowing parentheses.

I just sat there dazed for a few seconds, watching the feathery parehtneses slowly become smaller and fade away into nothingness. Slowly, I stood up, still clutching the purple book. I wondered about what I should do with it, then decided to put it back on the shelf. After doing so, I walked back out to the exit and boarded a bus, for where I did not know. The bus driver looked strangely familiar as I dropped the coins into the farebox;

"HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" he suddenly yelled at me. Oh fuck, I thought to myself. Now I knew why he looked so familiar: He was The Sussman!

"Umm... no," I responded weakly. Suddenly his head looked a lot darker than it was a moment ago, and an evil grin appeared across his face. The bus's doors slammed shut and The Sussman's face turned an almost negroid black. His left hand shot at me and I could see that it was not a hand, but the head of a snake which protruded from its end. I turned around and ran towards the back of the articulated bus.
"Let me show you the power of Satori," The Sussman said in a deep hiss. His snakelike arm extended from his body towards me as I continued to run for what seemed like eternity towards the longbus's rear door.

>>8354824
1.5/2

"Longbus is loooooooooooooooooooooong", I thought to myself as I continued to run, the snake's head fast approaching. The bus seemed to go on forever. After a while, I passed the driver's seat. WTF, I thought. Ahead of me was The Sussman, standing in the aisle facing the same direction as me, with his left arm pointed forward.

I looked behind me, and saw the snake head was still approaching; I had managed to outrun it for a bit, and it was racing towards me. RECURSION! I jumped into the stepwell just as the head gained a sudden burst of speed, piercing through The Sussman and sending bright glowing parentheses everywhere. I watched first his body, then his hands disintegrate in the same manner that the head had earlier. The long black arm, floating in mid-air, slowly disappeared into a cloud of these glowing parentheses, and the snake's head, which I now noticed had come through the windscreen along with me, did the same after a few moments.

I stepped over to the driver's seat, looking for the door release switch. I found what appeared to be the switch and toggled it, but the doors did not open. Shortly after, a low hissing sound emanated from the bus itself, followed by the loud booming cry of "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?", which felt as if it was coming from inside my head. Suddenly everything turned black.

>>8354826
2/2

I awoke to find myself still inside that mysterious bus, which was completely empty. The engine was still running, and it was still parked outside the library. "The library! Of course!" I thought to myself. As if my mind had been read, the front doors swung open and I ran from the bus toward the library, which also looked empty. I entered the building and frantically ran to where I had found the prized book earlier. The book was still there, and I grabbed it instinctively, then walked to the checkout. All but one counter was open, and there was a little Asian girl standing there; the place was deserted except for me and her. I put the book on the counter and she looked at it for a moment, then at me. "Have you read your SICP today?" she asked.

"You too?" I replied. "Have some tits and then GTFO and read your SICP!", she angrily shouted, then pulled up her shirt to show me her tits. She shoved the book into my hands and then disappeared spontaneously.

I left the library, and waited at the bus stop. The previous bus was no longer there. The girl I saw earlier walked up to me and looked at the Wizard Book I was holding, then glanced down at my crotch.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING STANDING THERE LIKE AN IDIOT? READ IT!" she suddenly shouted. Astounded, I quickly opened the book and started to read the first chapter. I was so intrigued by the book that I didn't notice she had begun to give me a blowjob. When I looked down, she took her mouth from my cock to angrily shout "GO BACK TO READING YOUR SICP" and so I did. I didn't even notice that I came until after she told me to stop reading. A short while later, the bus arrived.

>>8353569
That's a book for highschoolers

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>>8352084
>/ck/

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>>8355133
Z adds syn; E adds anti

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Posting a classic. Better than Spivak. I will fight you.

>>8355162
John&Courant > Apostol > Spivak

>>8355162
>>8355251
>not Stewart

>>8355162
why do you think it's better than spivak?

>>8353187
omg, kill yourself.

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>>8355776
:( pls no bullying

>>8355251
Rudin > *

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>>8357130
What are best books for self-teaching analysis and schedule/routine to have?

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Made popping my CS cherry easy.

Didn't even bleed.

Best book for introductory fluid mechanics?

>>8358226
How do you set up C++ and editor?

I'm complete newbie to this

>>8352051
fuck, that looks cool.

It's time to make some drugs, boys

>>8358226
Is this a good book when compared to C++ Primer Plus?

>>8352599
Do the exercises

>>8358216
Baby Rudin
Munkres' Analysis on Manifolds
Fourier Analysis: An Introduction by Stein & Shakarchi
Complex Analysis by Stein & Shakarchi
Real Analysis: Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces by Stein & Shakarchi
Functional Analysis: Introduction to Further Topics in Analysis by Stein & Shakarchi
Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and Their Applications by Folland
Real and Complex Analysis by Rudin
Functional Analysis by Lax
Functional Analysis by Rudin

And tons and tons of anal lube

>>8359530
Download Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
Make a fake email address
Register VS with the fake email address

>>8352083
how does this compare to wald's book?

>>8358216
Amann and a lot of asking in MSE. It's pretty hard to self teach something that can get you stuck for hours if you don't know an obscure identity. Yes, I'm talking to you, Rudin.

>>8359530
Download notepad++ on windows or geany on linux (babby level editors that don't force you to go full autism on day one).
Install mingw64 on windows or g++ on linux and look up how to use them (the command is g++ -std=c++14 -o filename.cpp filename.out).

>>8361516
what if i have mac

>>8362394
Then go and fucking kill yourself.
Just kidding, actually, you can supposedly install xcode which comes with clang instead of g++ (I don't think it makes any difference), but then you have to install a lot of additional shit just to have a compiler. On the other hand, you can install homebrew to have dank package management like you do on linux, and then "brew install g++", and just choose a random text editor like textwrangler or whatever.

>>8351279
>competition math for ch*nks
no thanks

>>8355162
>better than spivak
lmao

>>8362944
t. brainlet who could never win at anything

and most people who win are whites

>>8355162
Well, I'm taking analysis for the first time and from my perspective so far Spivak is far superior.

yo does anyone know any good books about animal biology? a friend wants to start learning about it, just for fun. they got pretty good grades in alevel biology, so i guess undergrad first year kinda level stuff. thanks guys!

>>8351279
I need three textbooks, one for logic, one for combinatorics and one for graph theory. No combo textbooks each must be separate and comprehensive. Go!

>>8363738
>analysis
>spivak

what the fuck are you doing?

>>8353217
Shankar faggot

>>8364595
Introduction to Metamathematics by Kleene
Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms by Cameron
Modern Graph Theory by Bollobás

>>8352599
>>8352696
>brainlets

what you describe is how our brains naturally work. the more we dwell on a chapter, the more confused we can become. it is just better to read and then go for a walk then revisit and recall it a few times and boom, its there forever.

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Best quality picture I could find. This book is amazing though. Use this as your main ODE text and you will not be disappointed.

Doesn't talk about fundamental matrices, Green's functions, or second order ODE with nonconstant coefficients. Other than this the book is complete.

(Honorable mentions in ODE: Tenenbaum and Waltman, both of these texts will give you what Haberman gives you.)

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What good theoretical physics courses written by one/a couple of authors do you know?
1) Landau/Lifshitz
2) Walter Greiner
3) Florian Scheck
4) ...

>>8365749
Well there's the Feynman one I suppose? Never read it though.

>>8365749
What is mathematical background/prerequistie in general you need to use Landau?

>>8367300
Just find Riley's "Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering" and read its table of contents.

>>8364618
Spivak's calculus is a real analysis book.

>>8367300
Not much, at least for the first volume. But you should be *very* comfortable with trigonometry, (multivariable) calculus and basic differential equations. A number of "common sense" arguments rely, in one way or another, on functional analytic considerations, but you can skip those, as they do, relying on common sense.

>>8367365
Reccomendation of problem books to make sure I'm *very comfortable*?

>>8367344
why?

Where do I start learning category theory?

>>8367786
Bump

Are there any /sci/ book recommendation lists?

>>8367985
Classroom or library

>>8367786
Actually, maybe reading through Arnold's Mathematical Methods for Classical Mechanics (it's a textbooks but there are many problems inside chapters) would be a good way to test and solidify your knowledge

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Another classic

>>8368349
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>>8352599

Assuming the book is attached to a lecture or a classroom situation

Before the lecture, I read the relevant information, rather quickly, but taking notes as I go and especially writing out parts I am confused on.

Then go to lecture, take notes.

Go home, look at notes I wrote up, do all the exercises. That's it.

>>8368995
Thanks.

Does anyone have:
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
On Man in the Universe
Do They Think You're Stupid?: 100 Ways of Spotting Spin and Nonsense from the Media, Celebrities and Politicians

>>8369130
stop reading shit

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Doing the problems in this book made all my programming interviews a joke

>>8369260
Have you read them, faggot?

>>8367786
>why?
Because there listed all topics that you should know to understand L-L. Definitely you should know calculus of variations and tensor analysis.

Hey can anyone recommend an entry level book for QFT? I have undergrad tier QM and special relativity knowledge. Also, what math background do I need?

These 3 books, are all you will ever need as a base to understand mathematics in any field

"Precalculus" - Sheldon Axler
http://precalculus.axler.net/
Explains the axioms of elementary algebra and introduces you to series and sets, binomial theorum, ect. Most importantly this book contains fully worked out solutions.

"Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel"- John Stillwell
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10697.html
This book gives you a complete overview of all elementary fields, and explains all you will ever need to know about the basics and how they really work, like understanding irrational numbers through recursive proofs that never halt. You will discover almost all of math can be reduced to a handful of axioms, and get exposed to some advanced math to see how it all ties in to elementary topics.

"How to Solve It" - G Polya
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/669.html
This is a book on systematic problem solving. Knuth, when asked about how he learned math pointed out that he struggled with math in school and was threatened with expulsion, this motivated him to do every single problem in the assigned calculus book and continually drill himself with other books until "I learned how to solve problems, so math became easy". Solving problems is a skill learned with practice. This blog post is also relevant, this guy did the same approach which taught him how to solve problems http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-got-the-highest-grade-in-my-discrete-math-class/

(Optional) He further refined this by "learning how to read" which is another skill http://calnewport.com/blog/2014/07/04/how-to-read-proofs-faster-a-summary-of-useful-advice/ also explained here: http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf so you can be one of those so-called miracle smart people who can tear through technical papers and books on a weekly basis (but all you're doing is using a specific strategy, you're no smarter than anybody else).

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>>8351279
I can't recommend this one enough to anyone who studies physical organic chemistry. The quantum mechanical concepts are well-explained with full calculations, and it reviews a lot of simpler chemistry concepts to grad-students or anyone who's been out of practice in that area for a while.

The only warning I can give is that a lot of the Molecular Orbital Theory is described using group-orbitals. If you like group-orbitals anyway and prefer more accurate modeling, it's perfect for you. But I prefer a simpler, more practical approach. Regardless, it doesn't change how great the text is.

>>8364618
Spivak even admits in the preamble that something like "introduction to analysis" would have been a more apt title, in hindsight. It's just that when he wrote it, there wasn't really a distinction between calculus and analysis (one being a subset of the other). The sort of mechanical, non-rigorous calculus we teach to first-years is a relatively recent meme.

>>8370539
Thank you for this.

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Check here for ebooks ftp://joelixny.ddns.net/The%20All-Embracing%20Library/

>>8370621
Thanks very much for the link, anon!

I am downloading some of those ebooks right now.

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fap fap fap

>>8368995
Jacobson for Algebra? Strauss for PDE?

That list is a fucking joke.

>Wow look at this brainlet that can't read poorly written, unnecessarily complicated books.

>>8370623
If you have problems downloading one try again later, some books are just being uploaded and you might get them half way the upload. Shit is big and the ftp is a week old.

>>8370621
How long will this FTP server stay up for? It looks excellent anon, I just hope it doesn't go down.

>>8370621
fuggghh, it's asking for a login/password now

missed my chance

>>8370858
no is not, login is anonymous by default

>>8370819
Until joel becomes an hero.

>>8370858
Try now.

Theoretical minimum by Susskind a great book to get into physics? Take into account that I have no prior knowledge besides highschool calculus

>>8368349
check /t/

>>8370593
>Spivak

There's a good foreward in this honors calc lecture notes collection called 'Spivak and Me' http://math.uga.edu/~pete/2400full.pdf

In it the professor talks about being a TA for a course that did Spivak in first year undergrad. He points out Spivak's Calculus is best used as a source of self study for bright,motivated students with little prior background and exposure to university level mathematics. He also notes some of the problems are so hard even his greatest students had difficulty with them unassisted, and that Spivak left virtually all nuances and smaller ideas as problem sets instead of discussing them in the text hoping you'll figure it out for yourself, which often no student could figure out.

>>8351279
Smecher

>>8370621
brainlet here, is there a mass-download button or do we just download one by one?
Thanks for the textbooks anon

>>8371404
wget for linux or WinHTTrack for windows.

>>8370631
I can't for the life of me understand why people like that book so much. It's better than Strauss and half of the other PDE books out there, but its honestly not complete. Maybe between that and Asmar yes, but as a standalone I don't understand.

>>8355251
This Tbh. John & Courant has better explanations and teaches you to use analysis like an actual (20th century) analyst might. Spivak is good if you kind of need to learn how to do rigorous math/prove stuff in the first place.

>>8370632
I agree for Strauss, Jacobson book II is actually pretty amazing for algebra. Book I is hard going if it's your first time.

>>8370539
>http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
That pdf has some good ideas, but it's probably not written for STEM students, since there is no fucking way you could read a 300 page textbook on math or physics in 8 hours, and 1-3 pages of notes/100 pages of the book is also unreasonable. Might as well not take notes at all.

>>8370631
>>8370632
t. brainlets who thinks Pinter and Farlow are better than complete books

>>8370434
Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai

>>8372810
Nope you fag. You make it seem like those are my only options for a"complete" book. Dummit ia better for Algebra, and Hillen or Asmar is better for PDE.

>>8351279
Sort of related to OP book, does anyone know of any good higher algebra problem books?

Putnam and Beyond is one of the few that even has an algebra section at all but it's very short, less than 10 pages.

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>>8375539
Might not be what you're looking for, but my teacher recommended "Problems in Higher Algebra" by D. K. Faddeev to us.

>>8371065
This is a shit foreward. "Some of the problems" are too hard for even good students? Which problems? Why are they too hard?

My freshman calc course was out of Spivak and I don't recall any of the problems being unreasonably difficult. Some were hard, sure, but I don't think there's a single problem in the book that's "google it or you're fucked"-tier.

If I finished my Calc sequence using meme books like Stewart, should I go back and do it with Spivak/Apostol or just begin studying analysis?

>>8376291
Just do analysis. It's not worth going back.

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This sexy, sexy book right here.

Who else /smooth bundle fetish/ here?

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Can anyone recommend me a good book on Lie groups that walks you through the prerequisites of differentiable manifolds? My analysis and group theoretic skills are quite alright.

>>8353217
More like wave mechanics,griffiths.
For complete qm sakurai is better

>>8367300
Differential equations,trigonometry not much.

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>>8353217
>not going with the Cohen-Tannoudji

Anyone have a recommendation for Genetics texts?

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>>8353187
Use libgen you fucking troglodyte (with .io as the extension)

Also, I love this book more than I love myself

any link for The Mental Calculator's Handbook? not on libgen, scihub, and any torrent site

>>8378080
what are the prereqs for this book? i started reading it but can't really go through the questions on the first chapter

>>8355162

>Not using papa rudin as your very first introduction to calculus

Brainlet detected.

>>8378403

The text says analysis up to manifolds and differential equations (Arnold also has a nice book on the latter) and linear algebra (probably algebra based).

Though because about halfway through he starts to talk about manifolds, and all the interesting stuff is in the appendices, so manifold theory, Lie groups/ algebras, basic understanding of Symplectic structures, and differential geometry will help you get the most out of this book

>>8378080
why do you love it so much?

>tfw it takes too long to read a text book
What we get through in a 1 hour lecture takes at least 3 hours when I'm going through a text book

What am I doing wrong lads

>>8379170
should be the other way around lad

>>8379170
there's no way you're actually internalizing all the information in the lecture, regardless if you understand everything or not, while you probably are thinking about every single sentence in the book.

>>8379170
I have this exact same thing going on, my solution is to attend the lectures, study the notes then use the book as a supplement. Saves so much time. Can you imagine I did the first two years on books instead of lectures?

>>8354829
A simple "It's because of a dream I had" would've been enough. Anyway congratulations on your autistic dreams, I actually enjoyed reading that idk why.

>>8379569
I've seen that image many times, I think that story has become sort of a copypasta.

Why do people meme Rudin so much? It's pretty shitty to self study with desu. Not saying it's bad, it makes wonders when you have an instructor but without one there are lots of better books.

>>8379782
Well, I quite enjoyed it. I rather like the terse style and it has great exercises (solutions to most are available as well).

Why is Rudin always singled out anyway? I've not heard anyone complaining about russel+norvig or spivak and they're meme'd far more.

>>8379782
It's a rite of passage. Also, anyone who needs a basic intro to analysis book

http://www.jirka.org/ra/

Is free

>>8359578
no

>>8370621
>>8370819
down as of current. rip

Does anyone have an ebook or pdf of Foundations of Earth Science, 7th Edition, by Lutgens? I've been having a hell of a time trying to find the thing, and the majority of links I find are either a virus trap or a link to buy it.

>>8381265
check again its working for me

>>8355162
Analysis = Spivak
Applied = Stewart

>>8379782
I've heard that watching these lectures while reading rudin makes self-study easier: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0E754696F72137EC