Caltrops - The Knuckle Shuffle





	[quote name="mark"][quote name="Chairman Mao"]I am also interested in discreet math, set theory, group theory, linear algebra, single and multivariable calc and statistics.[/quote] I'm not sure about pdfs, but here are some paper ones I like (available from your library no doubt): Currently my favorite book on discrete is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521422604/qid=1053737366/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-1473594-9154309">A Course In Combinatorics.</a> I'd taken a quite a bit of discrete math from a computational stance before approaching that so I'm not really sure how good it is as a starter. I think it's fantastic though. I knew group theory was important in physics (that's what you are taking, right?) but I was unaware that any other discrete structures were used... are you just interested, or will you be tested on it? For Single and Multi Calc, I think <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0534359493/qid=1053737559/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-1473594-9154309?v=glance&s=books">Stewart</a> is pretty good, but maybe not great. I was taught linear algebra using <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0387964126/qid=1053737751/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-1473594-9154309?v=glance&s=books">Lang</a> and hated it. I think it's a pretty good reference though, so it just might have been too terse for a text book. Linear Algebra is pretty dull. If it's computational, it's pretty easy, elementary proofs can be suprisingly difficult. I never took a course in abstract algebra and my selection of books for group theory was fairly random. I don't know what to suggest there. I can't tell if the book I had for stats was terrible (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0534377416/qid=1053738383/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1473594-9154309?v=glance&s=books">Wackerly</a>) or just unrelated to the courses. The reviewers on amazon seem to love it, so who knows. Good luck, don't burn out. mark[/quote]