ITT you post your bookshelf and we guess your major

>buying books

Pleb.

OH WOW THIS ONE IS SO HARD. LET ME GUESS YOU ARE AN ART MAJOR, HUH ?

>>8723118
EE+Physics dual major.

And no pic cuz I'm not even on CC now until summer, ayy.

>>8723123
I'm an extreme autist who likes flipping through a physical book and gathering a collection on my shelf.

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No one will ever guess.

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There is also Vollhardt's Organic chemistry textbook on my desk.

>>8723173

Theoretical physics

>>8723173
>no Basic Mathematics

how is it to have a shitty foundation

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here's what's on it right now

>>8723173
Psychology right? :^)
Those are some pretty great books there, at least the one's I've read (Aluffi, Schlichemair, BBS) I've liked a lot.

>>8723181
All the foundational stuff is there.

"Advanced Calculus" is your typical undergrad analysis

"Topology" is your typical undergrad topology (although it is written in a very unique way)

"Complex Analysis" while a graduate textbook, contains everything found in an undergrad book

"Linear Algebra" is again your typical upper-level undergrad book

As for Abstract Algebra, Aluffi is such a complete reference that keeping around a lower level text is unnecessary.

I have one book on my bookshelf:
"How to Scam College Students Into Buying Textbooks" by Won P. Sent

>>8723173
>>8723180+Pure Math OR you could be self-taught?
>>8723176
Mathematical Biology?
Seeing your Game Theory book is confusing me desu.
>>8723187
Fugg
Mathematical Physics?????
>>8723267
CStist that loves filesharing.

>>8723176
>infinite jest at the end

lol fuck off

>>8723281
for
>>8723187
>>8723187
>>8723187

>>8723279
>Fugg
>Mathematical Physics?????

I do condensed matter / biophysics stuff now but yeah for a while I was doing mathematical HEP

>>8723283
:^) what can i say

>>8723118
Gee idk could it be...wait wait don't tell me let me guess first. Are you EE by any chance?

>>8723173
You definitely appear to be a math person with interests in physics rather than vice versa. No physicist would only be interested in QFT, gauge theory, and string theory -- the exact areas of physics geometers and topologists are interested in.

>>8723187
Patrician as fuck. I would guess you are a theoretical physics guy, who had a passing interest in modern and postmodern lit in undergrad (you've got all the standards but nothing obscure).

>>8723173
Nice.
But why no more entry level books?
Say, mechanics, more analysis, topology and sets&logic.

>>8723176
ayyy i've got that calc book

>>8724143
>ayyy i've got that calc book
early transcendentals? good book, huh

Tons of sysadmin books here, few older assembly ones,K&R,and the brainlet tier math books on the shelf.
Love to read physical books.

>>8723809
>mechanics
I really only interested in physics that intersects Algebraic Geometry. I took your standard mechanics courses a while ago, but didn't keep any books.

>more analysis
don't like analysis

>topology
The book I have has everything you could want to know about general topology. I never learned Differential Topology (aside from the standard topological facts on smooth manifolds). As for algebraic topology, higher homotopy doesn't interest me and cohomology is discussed in multiple ways through some of my other books.

>sets&logic
Aside from the naive set theory needed to do pretty much all math, I don't care.

>>8723123
THIS

https://g.sicp.me/books/

>>8724195
Kedeligt. Faglitteratur? really?

>>8724187
Gee, I wonder what you might be working on...

How do you afford all those books though?

>>8724195
Det som engang var,

>>8724359

~85% of these books are used copies, some where presents from family (ie. Gravitation), and some were given to me (ie. QFT books). I also make money as a research assistant and teaching assistant. But, these are only the nicest things I have in my life, since I do is work and research.

Can you guess what I do work in?

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>>8723118

> Griffiths' 'Introduction to Electrodynamics'
> Not Wangness' 'Electromagnetic Fields'

>>8723123
Reading from a physical book is better for memory retention

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Not the best pic, but you can make out most of the titles.

>>8724422
Burger flipping

>>8724195
Kob bogerne på engelsk, svans.

>>8724398
>Introduction

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Please don't bully me

>>8725138
Get a shelf

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>>8725144
I actually just got one!
Sorry for shit quality

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a small sampling

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rate my book shelf

I can't fit my bookshelf in one shot. This one room has about 200 books in it, and there are multiple rooms like this, plus several boxes in the basement.

How do you guys afford all these books. I get a few but with this much it would cost alot.

>>8725161
I buy all mine used from goodwills and other thrift type stores online

>>8725161
I check abebooks regularly for books I want to own. Eventually I'll find them cheap unless they're either rare or very high level.

>tfw too poor to buy books

Always ponder about stealing from libraries though, but I'm not black.

>>8725151
those aren't books, get out.

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Many of the books were given to me: Taylor's general theory of functions, Spanier, Lang's algebraic numbers, both Rudins, Hicks's differential geometry, Greub, D'Inverno, Wald, Armstrong.
The two copies of quantum fields and strings is because the seller mislabeled volume 2 as volume 1.

>>8725158
Looking for roommates? :P

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>>8725194
Maybe this time

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>>8723181
Umm, I was just about to point out how that guy reeks of being a sophomore. Instead I discovered a piece of trash freshman.

>>8724746
Masters in Statistics, actually. Though there's really only one book that's related, and it's from my undergrad.

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Left most of the books from my Bsc at my parents'

>>8725204
Self punishment 300k starting psychotic

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Good luck.

>>8723187
infinite jest next to gravity's rainbow <3

>>8724422
Oh no... it's retarded :((

>>8724380
Theoretical cosmology, or some kind of gravity research applied to cosmology.

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You never know :^)

>>8725204
Librarian?

>>8725174
>he doesn't liquify his books and store them in jars

>>8726539
you got two years into some electrical/comp Eng program, found out it was a lot more difficult than /sci/ led on, and switched to history?

>>8727487
Close. Other way around. Came to my senses about a history/lit degree after wasting a year of my life, am now on year 2 of EE.

Took some extra CS courses that I didn't need too, because the advisers at my school are fucking idiots.

>>8727562
They aren't idiots matey, don't trust advisors. I don't know how your school works but mine provides me with a nice pdf of every class I need to graduate. Those faggot ass advisors just want to make the schools more money.

>>8725150
my favorite is the red one in the middle

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>>8723187
>those meme books at the bottom
ell emm ayyy oh

>>8724187
really makes me think.

>>8724195
computer science

>>8725138
>algebra 1
>algebra 2
>the will to power
topkek

>>8725150
autism

>>8725580
>tesla
pleb

>>8727597
Oh, I got a printout. Straight from the engineering advising office.

It was out of date by over a year.

I'm a better programmer for it, at least.

>>8727622
>Quantum mechanics
>Neural networks and brain function
>Connectionism and the mind
>The construction of social reality
>Sigmund Freud

Get back to >>>/x/

>>8723118
hmm this is a hard one i have no idea
kys op this was just an excuse to show off your cool ass shelf

>>8723123
not all books are digitized faggo

>>8728432
nice meme friendo :^)

>>8723173
lol we had a seminar on the gauge gravity duality book

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You never guess.

>>8724195
loser?

>>8729140
medical biology?

>>8723173
>algebra chapter 0
>buying meme books

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>>8723118

You'll never guess mine.

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what kind of plebs buy books these days

>>8729217
No. A stoner.

>>8729238
>tfw I fell for the meme and read Aluffi
At least I didn't pay for a copy of the thing.

Just use Mac Lane if you really need categories in your elementary algebra guys.

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>physical books

bet you "people" still write cursive and do math on a piece of dead tree

>>8729365

People that actually read them instead of just download intending to read later and never do, faggot.

>>8729365
>>8729566 x999

>>8729365
Good books in advanced math or physics take months or even years to fully understand. Buying them is worth it if you'll be spending that much time with them. Downloading them is just for evaluating their usefulness to you before buying.

>>8729566
>not buying books intending to read them but never doing so
get on my level

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>tfw hate working through e-books
>tfw I could print the e-book on an inkjet, xerox it five times and glue the spine with my cum and still get a better quality product than modern GTMs

>>8729566
True.

I would have never read works of Voltaire and Boethius had I was not given physical copies of them as a gift. If works like a charm.

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You'll never guess!

>>8729653
Australian weeaboo.

>>8729653

Advanced Fapping To Little Girls

>>8725150
theoretical physics?

>>8729277
Historian

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Good luck faggots

>>8728432
>The construction of social reality
>Thinking John Searle is some radical post-modernist or anti-realist philosopher
The book is about social norms. While Searle certainly isn't "hard science", his work is well reasoned, plausible, empirically sound, and relevant to social sciences, psychology, cognitive science, and occasionally comes up in work on game theory and related subjects.

>>8727622
Cognitive Science?

>>8728432
>>Connectionism and the mind
>>The construction of social reality

>Paranormal

Your bait is leaking m8

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>>8729724

>that pipboy
>he actually did buy it

>>8729365
Please share your library

>>8725580
Is university physics better than Halliday?

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>>8729722

Nope, although history is fine, too.

>>8725150
Have you even read 80% of those books?

>>8729277

>Haskell

Applied autist

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>>8723118
Heh heh, you guys will never guess.

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>>8725580
>hypersphere

>>8730713

BSc Physical Geography

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>>8725580

>Gravity's Rainbow

>>8730713
>putting Weihenstephaner on a shelf below bud lite/sam adams/natty lite/heineken/corona
Just why?

>>8730767
I don't know. The bottom shelf was the better brews I've had, except the leinenkugel.

What's wrong with Sam Adams?

>>8723279
>>8724143

Math major, chemistry minor (Just need one more upperdiv chem class). Taking a bio class for fun. Game theory book is because I needed an elective but mostly because I think it's interesting. Game theory is in the econ department.

Should I take Biochem or Synthetic Organic Chemistry? for that last chemistry class

>>8723176
>intro to logic
do you think that's better than discrete mathematics by Epp?

bit underwhelmed by epp, and looking for a solid book on just logic

>>8723173
How long would it take me to understand all the math in those books if I started with Calculus? A year?

>>8729554
thank you for this advice

i thought aluffi was a good textbook, considering the number of exercises it has

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Just

>>8730828

I like it quite a bit. It's symbolic logic though, and leads into more mathematical stuff, so it may not be exactly what you're looking for, depending on what you mean by "pure logic"

I haven't read Epp's book to compare

>>8730805
>Should I take Biochem or Synthetic Organic Chemistry? for that last chemistry class

Unless you want to do a PhD in a synthetic lab, I would take biochem. First-semester biochem not nearly as difficult as it is a memorization marathon with a bunch of pre-meds, but I think it would serve you well in getting a decent exposure to various sub-disciplines of chemistry. I think synthetic organic would be a tad specialized for an undergrad minor.

>>8729653
How do your books defy gravity?

>>8729653
>>8729653

Japanese major/Japan Studies/East Asia Studies concentration on Japan.

I would call you a disgusting weboo, but I see you have Chalmer's classic MITI and the Japanese Miracle, along with a few other books on modern Japan, so maybe you outgrown your otaku phase.

Have you read Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R. Taggart Murphy? I liked it.

>>8730997
Hi Purdue.

>>8729728
I see you got a little defensive.

>>>/x/

>>8730305
Linguist

>>8729724
premed or med?

>>8730830
Much longer. At a standard pace 3 years minimum. Maybe 2 if you are really serious. There's a lot of lower level prerequisites which he doesn't have books for.

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I only have my school books here. This should be pretty easy to guess.

>>8730997
fucking nuclear engineering major purdue faggot

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I'm not in PCSI. The book is just a nice tool to have.

>>8731184
I live in a 300 sq ft apartment. No room.

>>8731094
>>8732429
Purdue alumnus now actually, I got a job and everything.

>>8732488
>Purdue alumnus now actually

Still insecure though, right? :^)

>>8729724
Oh wow you have the same o chem book I do. It's not the one I used for my class though. The one in my pic is a second hand one I got before going to college.

>>8729727
nope, though I may want to go into that later

>>8732537
chemistry?

>>8732507
>insecure
No

>>8732591
>chemistry?
Almost. I was bio and env sci. I tried to triple major but was two classes short of my chem degree.

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Ignore the cans and bottles, picture would have been retardedly proportioned if I left left them out.

I'm in my third year and have no books related to my major so good luck I guess.

>>8732613
Engineer

>>8732686
Doubt it, no butt plug.

>>8731214

Yes, although I've moved to Computer Science now.

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Guess?

>>8733387

Performance Studies, concentration in Queer-Feminist Semiotics

>>8733390
You hit the nail right on the head my friend. I hid all the performance studies books away beforehand.

>>8733387
In what time span have you read and worked through all these? That'd take me 20 years

>>8733387
PDEs or Financial Math

>>8733395
To answer your question, three years.

I've taken courses on all these subjects except physics and finance. So if I need to I will buy multiple books on a certain subject until I find the perfect book for that subject. Hence multiple books on ODE/PDE/Probability/Stats/etc..

The Physics and finance books are for fun that I read for on my spare time. I've been studying physics/finance for about a year now.

The Dover books are mostly for reference.

>>8733387
procrastinating virgin anime faggot with an academically accomplished dad.

>>8733410
Damn, you're good. What gave me away?

(strictly speaking dickgirls are a subset of straight porn though)

>>8733413
Ah! Elementary, my dear anon. You posted this on 4chan.

>>8732613
CS

So how do you use this fucking wxMAXIMA? How do I get the input to show up as latex and not fucking html?

>>8732847
The bottles almost look like one

>>8733387
NEET

>>8732537
Show us your telescope.

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>>8733581
Not that guy but whats wrong with having a telescope?

>>8723123
CS major detected

>>8733686
Retard detected.

>>8733784
Rude.

>>8732686
>>8733439

Close enough. It's Physics.

Sometimes I wonder whether I should read more about physics but studying it takes up enough of my energy.

>>8732613
>can of relentless
I know the cans look cool, but they taste like shit, come on anon.

>>8733856
i needed caffeine and it was on sale

although since that picture was taken i've quit caffeine

>>8733920
TONIGHT!

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I would really appreciate it if a microbiologist posted his bookshelf

>>8733835
>read more about physics
wtf does that even mean

>>8734891

Read about the subject beyond what's in my courses? Not like you're gonna cram the entirety of modern physics into a 3-year undergrad degree, there's always more to learn.

>>8734965
>Read about the subject
you mean study?

I fucking hate the insufferable pricks that inhabit this board

>>8723118
Library Management

>>8723118
Electrical Engineering

>>8730713
>putting books on your beershelf

>>8731184
What's the story behind the .webm? I'm guessing dude got pissed about this person being a thing.

>>8729365
>downloaded as a package
>never read

>>8730830
A couple years, minimum.

>>8730713
geologist m8

>>8737972
CompE

>tfw they give you the papers of your textbook to put into a binder instead of a real textbook

feels bad

>>8730743
beautiful

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I have yet to work through all of them

>>8737972
embedded systems eng

>>8723118
Besides lab manuals, I don't think I have purchased a physical book. I just do research on the internet or go to the library/bookstore and chill.

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:^)

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ancap studies

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>>8743263
>There are people who actually bought into the "read Stirner" meme

>>8743271
I'm a Rothbard guy not a Stirnitie

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>>8723118
off to the right on the lower shelf are Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, and Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance.

>>8743002
How do you major in shitty comic books?

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Fresh out of hecks to give

>>8744600
RN program?

>>8744605
MD(/PhD) 4th year. Never really read any of those, just using the local UpToDate + some eBooks. Collecting a personal library of books not read won't fool anyone.

Why would you guess RN?

>>8744619
My sister is looking to become an RN, and the books on your shelf looked like they're about on her level. I'm
>>8743410
Though, so what the fuck do I know about medicine

>>8723118
Not Pirating your books, and giving into the jews who run the education insdustry oligopoly.

Pleb + Cuck + Faggot + Bad Finances + Mental Retardation + Aspergers = (You)

>>8744829
Who hurt you ?

>>8744829
>Not liking the weight of a physical book in your hands
>Not loving the smell of the ink and paper in a new volume as you flip through it for the first time before finding a perfectly sized hole on your shelf
>Not appreciating the wealth of knowledge inherited by way of a used book, tenderly caressing each page as you peruse its contents, imagining those who studied from the book before you and what they took from it

>>8725158
This.

I am standing in a room with two large book shelves. additionally I have quite a lot more books than in some of these photos just, sitting around. Plus a small shelf near my bed. Plus several more shelves in other rooms. Plus some in other small shelves, and stacks elsewhere about. Oh, and my bag.

Of course they range in topic, from cookbooks to weird humerous poetry to physsics to 'classic literature' with a smattering of philosophy, a heavy dose of history, some scraps of chemistry, biology, notebooks, large amounts of kids books and bookss in foreign languages, government technical reports about random things, plays, science fiction. I think the oldest is from 1863 and the newest from 2017, with most proably comming from the 1970'ss and 60's, but thats just a guess.

Could you guess my major by looking at them? I am amused; you assume we all must have majors.

Oh what a world.

>>8745184
Librarian.

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>>8738010
Yes

>>8729566
this

>>8723173
Would any of these books be a good pick up for a Mathematics Major Physics Minor to pick up

>>8746083
It looks like most of those are related to algebraic geometry, including the physics ones. So you'll probably only get use out of them if you are also interested in algebraic geometry.

>>8746083
It depends on your particular interests.

Obviously Gauge/Gravity Duality and String Theory are both pretty specific.

The QFT is a good book, but desu there are better ones out there.
The standouts of the math texts:

Evans PDE book is the "standard" book for the field, so if you like PDEs then get it.

Lang Complex Analysis is as good as any Complex Analysis text. The fact it is a graduate text allows for the later chapters to explore some advanced topics not contained in undergrad texts.


Janich's Topology is pretty unique, in a good way, and a great topology book for someone who already knows topology.

Kuhnel's Differential Geometry is interesting in that it covers a lot of ground in a very short amount of time. Ch.1 you are doing basic diff. geometry curves and by the last chapter you are focusing in on the geometry of Einstein manifolds.

Aluffi is IMO the best Algebra text out there and if you have any interest in algebra, you should get it.

The 4 alg. geometry books are all good. But also pretty specific.
The standard book for full on alg. geometry is Hartshorne. If you want to go in the direction of Hodge Theory, Arapua is good. The other 2 are best as supplementary texts.

>>8725150
Have you actually read all of those? Impressive if you have. Also, is the VHDL book worth reading an an intro text?

u dont own these rofl all rented thats like 1k worth of boots

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I have a few more books, but this is most. Guess away, I don't think you'll ever get it.

>>8746193
no college

>>8746208
Hah, nope. Try again.

Okay, I've got a question.

I was looking for some literature that offered insight into the history of mathematics--that would cover some of the pivotal discoveries and advancements made since being a part of recorded history.

Do you folks have any recommendations?

I ask because the mind seems to take better to prose than to formulae, unless the latter is given a bit of history and application.

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>>8730743
I had to look this up because I didn't believe it was real

>>8746210
History.

>>8746193
george rr martin

dropped retard

>>8733566
Astronomer working for Alex Jones?

>>8746193
Computational geneticist?

>>8746301
It's physics.

>>8746308
I regret buying it too m8. Absolutely hated it.

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I got a kindle a few years ago, and all my classes have me buy online access codes for textbooks now.

>>8729724
>went into dad's office to pretend to be an MD?

Where's the FA? Pathoma? Robbins? Netter's anatomy? Elsevier's collection?

If you're not bamboozling, please hold me. Step 1 is coming up and I'm scared...

>>8740132
Mcmc fluid dynamics

Do you guys really enjoy reading all of those stuff? I mean quantum mechanics, topology, jesus christ, do you even have a life? Or does your uni force you to read all those books?

>>8747436
Topology is legitimately cool, fuck you for implying otherwise

>>8747479
No, I mean why would anyone read something not related to his work? Why programmers read about physics instead of learning a new framework? That doesnt make any sense.

>>8747485
Because some people have an interest in math and physics, and choose to learn about those things in their spare time for fun. It's called a "hobby" in English.

>>8747514
I understand, it's just interesting, that in school almost everyone hate those subjects, so you know, its hard to imagine someone really reading all those math book about nonpractical stuff.

>>8723118
why is the QUANTUM PHYSICS book so skinny

>>8747538
Nobody takes topology if they don't want to.

>>8747538
In school I wasn't interested in many things since I was forced to learn, but now I am really interested in subjects I hated before, some friends of mine are the same

>>8746193
Polymath

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im employed

>>8746193
No college, maybe math of physics dropout. Most books look untouched except the retarded /pol/ retarded ones on the bottom. The spines all look pristine on almost all those paperbacks.

>>8748178
Fry cook?

>>8748233
welder

>>8747553
model of the dirac delta generalised function

>>8748235
Wished I would have taken Welding in high school. Seems like a cool skill to have.

>>8748459
>CCS
patrician af

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Part 2

>>8749323
>>8749325
Are you an electronical engineer or just amateur ?

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Late to the party, but you guys will probably guess this pretty easy

>>8750087
Women's Studies with a minor in Japanese.

>>8749323
Aspiring slot machine modder

>>8748690
The most popular major in every college

>>8750103
Forgot the yu yu hakusho collection, close enough

>>8750087
Пpивeт дpyг. Этo вac в yнивepe тaкoй книгo-лиcт, или ты для ceбя вce этo читaeшь?

>post a picture of what you study and have people read it back to you
Cool thread idea.

>>8750318
Where is your shelf ?

Unfortunately I'm one of those cunts who buys books and never gets 'round to reading them.

Post a picture at least

>>8750087
Advanced differential faggotry with a minor in slavabooism

>>8723118
ITT:Posers

>>8750363
>>8743410
Is unironically my current undergraduate bookshelf.

>>8724195
neck beard whose farts reak of taco bell bean burritos

>>8733387
>mathematical statistics.
Idk why everyone considers this book a classic. I found it to be a poorly written piece of shit with bad exercises.

That Quantum Mechanics book looks a little thin.

my library only has hoffman and kunze 1st edition without the nice cover. "ree"

>>8724401
Not buying it... even if data suggests it might because of the e-reader's flashing and maybe because people are conditioned to books...
Other than that I see no reason.
In fact, I think e-readers are even better.

>>8724195
BRONY! I'm absolutely sure you are a brony!

>>8725174
This thread name : ITT you post your bookshelf and we guess your major
This is him bookshelf!

>>8723196
>linear algebra
>upper-level book
seriously? one has to know that shit in highschool, but no later

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No chance

>>8752716
Bio

>>8750087
Russian diaspora here. Besides kindergarten I only learned in the American education system. Do you use English, German, French, etc.-language textbooks in Russian university classes? Or did you buy those for yourself?

Thanks for making me feel a brainlet. Feels good.

>>8752573
in my experience at least the high school version is just learning the mechanics, how to work with vectors, matrices, do gaussian elimination etc, while the university version was a proofs-based course that covered stuff like eigenvectors and (briefly) Hilbert spaces as well as deriving and proving the earlier theorems

>>8724187
Not a physics major, but I always wanted to buy 'Gravitation'. It's just too expensive for me right now to buy it just for funsies.

>buying textbooks

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>implying I can read

According to your bookshelfs, you are well interested in different topics. How to be like you?

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can't post all of them but have a sample

>>8753663
Fucking love Neil Gaiman.

>>8753663
>holy lit memes

reading several works from a single novelist is a more satisfying way to read

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>>8723118
This is how my homotopy theory folder is partitioned; I'll let you guys guess.

>>8743410
take the used stickers off REEEEEEE

>>8725138
high school student

>>8746360
CS with a certificate in German

>>8754371
>not being proud of buying used textbooks

>>8754464
> a certificate in German
Fuck is that

>>8743410
>6 C++ books
I don't think you've read any of those
I think you just bought them because they were cheap

>>8754663
I took some programming classes at community college, and all of them required different books (Absolute, the Schildt reference, and the intro class listed both C++ Demystified and C++ For Everyone). After transferring to University, none of those classes transferred, and the University's CS classes start with Java (hence C++ for Java programmers) and the Stroustrup text was listed as optional.

I've read all of them but the Schildt reference cover-to-cover, and regret all of them but Demystified (because without it I wouldn't have started coding) and the Stroustrup book.

>>8723123
I don't think I've bought a single book other than one where I had to physically remove pages with problems on them to turn in.

>>8723118
How many of those books have you read and mastered, OP?

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>Current year
>Not handwriting the chapters you need from library books
>Not printing whole books in your dorm printer
>Having a shelf
>Focusing photos

>>8754874
europoorfag

>>8754887
Not even poor, but i take it personal when someone wants to charge me 200€ for a mass produced book.

And the selection and handwriting process is a great study exercise

>>8745184
Unemployed

>>8724271
Thank you anon

Thought this thread was dead

>>8750257
Кyпил нa книжнoй бaлкe пoтoмy чтo мнoгo дpyзeй физикe. Лaндay пpaвдa тpyднoвaтo читaть.

>>8753131
I bought those for myself/given by friends and family because there's lots of russian scientists that ended up doing menial work and shelving a lot of their good books. Russian book companies typically translates a lot of german/american books into russian.

>>8754682
Working through that Strosoup text now. It's pretty great.

>>8724401
[Citation needed]

>>8723173
>String theory & m-theory

nigga. dats liek Relativity & The relation between mass, speed and relative time

>>8755308
M-Theory is distinctly different from String Theory. The obvious part being it doesn't even involve strings.

>>8723118
I jave mostly philosophy books, but I'm and cyber security major lol