Caltrops - The Knuckle Shuffle

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by mark 05/23/2003, 9:17pm PDT

Chairman Mao wrote:

I am also interested in discreet math, set theory, group theory, linear algebra, single and multivariable calc and statistics.

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 Course In Combinatorics. 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 Stewart is pretty good, but maybe not great. I was taught linear algebra using Lang 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 (Wackerly) or just unrelated to the courses. The reviewers on amazon seem to love it, so who knows.

Good luck, don't burn out.

mark