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Look for books from "Mir publishers", there are some nice soviet books.

https://mirtitles.org/tag/mathematics/


Very very cool! Somehow most names are unfamiliar.

I have very much enjoyed the OP (Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning). Any particular books that you would recommend?


Not the person you asked the question of;

I thought everybody knew of this site especially Indians since it was started and is lovingly maintained by an Indian :-) A lot of hard work has gone into it with not just scanning of the books but also typesetting some of them in latex for better rendering and reading. The website author deserves all the credit/acclaim he can get.

All of the books are hosted on internet archive which you can browse here - https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

Many of the titles are also published in hard copy form by low-cost Indian publishers on Amazon India.

Some recommendations which are not typical textbooks;

1) Little Mathematics Library series - https://mirtitles.org/2024/05/11/little-mathematics-library-...

2) Books by Lev Tarasov. Some of these books are structured as a dialogue and thus walks you through the conceptual process. Titles are on Calculus, Probability, Quantum Mechanics, Physics Q/A etc. All worth reading; some of them are latex remastered versions - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Tarasov

3) Higher Math for Beginners(with Yaglom) and Elements of Applied Mathematics(with Myskis) by Zeldovich - https://mirtitles.org/?s=zeldovich

4) Mathematical Handbook (two vols); Elementary Mathematics and Higher Mathematics by M.Vygodsky. - https://mirtitles.org/?s=vygodsky

5) Handbook of Physics by Yavorsky and Detlaf - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Handbook+of+Physics

6) Fundamentals of Physics by Ivanov - https://mirtitles.org/2018/04/21/fundamentals-of-physics-iva...

7) Ever popular Science/Maths books by Yakov Perelman viz. Physics for Entertainment, Mathematics can be Fun etc. - https://mirtitles.org/?s=Yakov+Perelman


Wonderful!

I grew up fascinated by some of the books from MIR publisher sI could lay my hands on.

> Many of the titles are also published in hard copy form by low-cost Indian publishers on Amazon India.

Any way to quickly filter for these? (Other than of course searching for each book by title)

Thanks!

EDIT:

The one or two titles I found were not really priced economically --

https://www.amazon.in/Satellite-typhoon-Eye-Science-everyone...

https://www.amazon.in/Our-Planet-Earth-Alexei-Byalko/dp/0828...

https://www.amazon.in/Yakov-Perelman%C2%92s-Physics-Entertai...


> Any way to quickly filter for these? (Other than of course searching for each book by title)

Search for author name and/or title name. Generally the Indian publishers only publish well-known and famous textbooks/exambooks since they are the ones which sell the most. Eg. Piskunov (Calculus in 2 vols), Irodov (Physics problems) etc. The publishers are CBS Publishers, Arihant Publishers, Aargon Press etc.

The links you have listed are for the original Mir publications from 1970s/1980s which are collector's items today and hence some enterprising individuals are selling them at a markup on Amazon.

Finally, the best way to build up your personal library and enjoy books today, is to get the largest screen Android tablet that you can afford and install a ereader app like Moon+ReaderPro (https://www.moondownload.com/) and start downloading ;-)


Thanks a lot! Very helpful.


Look also at https://www.sumizdat.org/ which is Alexandre Givental's small press.


Paying with credit card gives you at least some leverage when a merchant doesn't hold their end of the deal. Good luck getting your money back with iDEAL (it's not possible right now).


As someone also working on CAD in their spare time, also tried the hosted app. I get the feeling that this is made by someone who has never opened a (professional) CAD app at all. It feels like a mix between a tool like blender and CSG-style CAD, but even all of that doesn't seem to work. Maybe this is the proof that vibe coding does not work, at least not for this kind of application.

In my own project I use LLMs very sparingly and hesitantly, but made the observation that they are not very useful on the hard parts of CAD. I expect this is because of a lack of training material. Most professional CAD applications are proprietary and books on the topic are usually sparse on implementation details. The non-BRep CAD applications such as OpenSCAD and family are probably overrepresented in the training data.

This might also explain why people's experiences with LLMs are very varied. If you stay in the happy path of CRUD web development and stuff all is nice and well, but if you start to veer off this path you get more and more challenged.


Thanks for trying. What doesn't work? What did you try? If you're specific I'm happy to fix it.


People in the Netherlands are usually not at all proud of their cuisine, but the cheese is definitely a nice aspect (as someone who eats the >1 year ripened stuff almost daily)

Although for me some of the French cheeses are the best. Just what you're used to I guess :D


It seems like the advice is primarily relevant if you are already very talkative and/or complaining too much about everything wrong. In that case, it will not hurt to take a step back sometimes: this is also leadership.


This is what I could see with my camera in the east of the Netherlands, and even with the naked eye I could easily see some red at times: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl


Very nice! Thank you for sharing!


Around 1 AM at night this was the view in the east of the Netherlands: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

With the naked eye I could see moving bright "clouds", and sometimes see streaks of red inside them. After 1:30 it died out quite rapidly for me.


In the east of the Netherlands I was seeing something similar to what you describe, but when particularly active I also saw a reddish glow in places. This is a timelapse I made around the same time: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl


Well, if you produce crops instead of livestock, you are not emitting any nitrogen compounds so would in theory be totally unaffected by regulation.


The "local nature" (barely anything left), has already been sacrificed for decades to this. For example, a large drop in insect populations has been recorded, likely because of intensive farming practices. So continuing to do this (apart from EU regulation) does not seem to me like it is very wise. Agriculture is also very dependent on some kind of local nature existing (think pollinators). If you don't care about nature at all, it will be a very dead place soon enough. We are also part of nature, after all.


Note that some of the nature areas are very much man-made. Generally they are the result of either over-farming or over-logging which really reduced the soil quality and gave space for species that can handle poor soil. That is making the impact of nitrous compounds much bigger because it fertilizes the soil which displaces the species used to very poor soil.

As for insect population, that is to do with pesticides, and horticulture. The farming problem causing these protests is nitrous compound emissions caused by keeping livestock. That is a totally different group of farmers.


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