Are the "Dover books on X" series good for math an

>>9072989
The wikia recommends several of them.

pollard and tennenbaum's book on differential equations is really nice. It includes a number of techniques which are pretty slick and no longer in modern syllabi. It's very pedagogical and easy to learn from, but it comes from an age when people had to look up logarithms in tables, it's a cozy feel.

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>>9072996
Thanks anon just bought the one you suggested and all of these for a total of about $150, holy shit this is such a good value. We have advanced so far as a society, having a euphoric moment I can't wait to read a fraction of these then give up /s


>Ordinary Differential Equations (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Number Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Mathematics for Physicists (Dover Books on Physics)
>Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Information Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Mathematical Modelling Techniques (Dover Books on Computer Science)
>Mathematical Programming (Dover Books on Computer Science)
>Geometry: A Comprehensive Course (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Mechanics (Dover Books on Physics)
>Theory of Sets (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>The Philosophy of Space and Time (Dover Books on Physics)
>Thermodynamics (Dover Books on Physics)
>Quantum Theory (Dover Books on Physics)
>Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (Dover Books on Computer Science)
>Introduction to Graph Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Theoretical Physics (Dover Books on Physics)
>Horns, Strings, and Harmony (Dover Books on Music)
>One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes (Dover Books on Mathematics)
>Matrices and Linear Transformations: Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)

>>9073075

Now just make sure they don't sit around collecting dust, work through them and learn something.

>>9072989
Are these the kind of books that you'd toss away after serious exploration of the field, or the kind you'd keep for review?

Dover Books are cheap because they are books published a long time ago. That's really all to it. Doesn't speak to the quality of the content, but there are definitely good books out there that are also cheap.