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Can someone please help me find Zumdahl and DeCoste: Chemical Principles, 8th edition?

I can't find it, and I would really like to have 8th edition

This is 7th edition

>Goldstein.

t. brainlet

(((((Goldstein)))))

>Zumdahl

...

pls user no b-b-bullly

any1 halp?

Goldstein is one of the plebiest books out there.
Go read Arnold, Marsden, or Landau and check back

wasn't criticising man - Zumdahl is king

>reading jew books
wew lad

Let's go boys

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Daily reminder that synthetic chemistry isn't science

good try user, maybe you're lucky in other areas of life

jew book? what the fuck is a jew book?

/pol/, you have to go back

>/pol/, you have to go back
It's not about the possible Jewish surname.
The book is simply TRASH.
Use (((Arnol'd))) instead.

How does Veeky Forums efficiently extract information and learn from textbooks?

I'm planning to read through the thing and write summaries after some paragraphs or after a chapter.

>Zumdahl

can someone explain this meme? Also has anyone managed to find that edition?

I just read a chapter once then go for a walk at the park and figure out everything I'm my head.
I retrieve information years later.
Stay mad brainlets.

s-stop bullying me! i said stop it!

does anyone have the 8th edition of it?

Quantum Mechanics, Griffiths

Is there even another real option?

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what's up with the snake

1/2
I had a strange dream the other day. I was riding the bus when all of a sudden this huge black snake head with retarded-looking eyes pops through the window and screams loudly "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" The bus had just stopped beside the library, and I ran inside as quickly as possible; the snake head was now chasing me around as I frantically searched for the legendary book among the shelves. I spotted the distinctive blue cover and ran toward it, the huge head inches from my ass. With great force I pulled the book from the shelf and instinctively directed it at the black head which by now was dripping with saliva at the mouth. It disappeared as it made contact with the book, disintegrating into a flurry of glowing parentheses.

I just sat there dazed for a few seconds, watching the feathery parehtneses slowly become smaller and fade away into nothingness. Slowly, I stood up, still clutching the purple book. I wondered about what I should do with it, then decided to put it back on the shelf. After doing so, I walked back out to the exit and boarded a bus, for where I did not know. The bus driver looked strangely familiar as I dropped the coins into the farebox;

"HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?" he suddenly yelled at me. Oh fuck, I thought to myself. Now I knew why he looked so familiar: He was The Sussman!

"Umm... no," I responded weakly. Suddenly his head looked a lot darker than it was a moment ago, and an evil grin appeared across his face. The bus's doors slammed shut and The Sussman's face turned an almost negroid black. His left hand shot at me and I could see that it was not a hand, but the head of a snake which protruded from its end. I turned around and ran towards the back of the articulated bus.
"Let me show you the power of Satori," The Sussman said in a deep hiss. His snakelike arm extended from his body towards me as I continued to run for what seemed like eternity towards the longbus's rear door.

1.5/2

"Longbus is loooooooooooooooooooooong", I thought to myself as I continued to run, the snake's head fast approaching. The bus seemed to go on forever. After a while, I passed the driver's seat. WTF, I thought. Ahead of me was The Sussman, standing in the aisle facing the same direction as me, with his left arm pointed forward.

I looked behind me, and saw the snake head was still approaching; I had managed to outrun it for a bit, and it was racing towards me. RECURSION! I jumped into the stepwell just as the head gained a sudden burst of speed, piercing through The Sussman and sending bright glowing parentheses everywhere. I watched first his body, then his hands disintegrate in the same manner that the head had earlier. The long black arm, floating in mid-air, slowly disappeared into a cloud of these glowing parentheses, and the snake's head, which I now noticed had come through the windscreen along with me, did the same after a few moments.

I stepped over to the driver's seat, looking for the door release switch. I found what appeared to be the switch and toggled it, but the doors did not open. Shortly after, a low hissing sound emanated from the bus itself, followed by the loud booming cry of "HAVE YOU READ YOUR SICP TODAY?", which felt as if it was coming from inside my head. Suddenly everything turned black.

2/2

I awoke to find myself still inside that mysterious bus, which was completely empty. The engine was still running, and it was still parked outside the library. "The library! Of course!" I thought to myself. As if my mind had been read, the front doors swung open and I ran from the bus toward the library, which also looked empty. I entered the building and frantically ran to where I had found the prized book earlier. The book was still there, and I grabbed it instinctively, then walked to the checkout. All but one counter was open, and there was a little Asian girl standing there; the place was deserted except for me and her. I put the book on the counter and she looked at it for a moment, then at me. "Have you read your SICP today?" she asked.

"You too?" I replied. "Have some tits and then GTFO and read your SICP!", she angrily shouted, then pulled up her shirt to show me her tits. She shoved the book into my hands and then disappeared spontaneously.

I left the library, and waited at the bus stop. The previous bus was no longer there. The girl I saw earlier walked up to me and looked at the Wizard Book I was holding, then glanced down at my crotch.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING STANDING THERE LIKE AN IDIOT? READ IT!" she suddenly shouted. Astounded, I quickly opened the book and started to read the first chapter. I was so intrigued by the book that I didn't notice she had begun to give me a blowjob. When I looked down, she took her mouth from my cock to angrily shout "GO BACK TO READING YOUR SICP" and so I did. I didn't even notice that I came until after she told me to stop reading. A short while later, the bus arrived.

That's a book for highschoolers

>Veeky Forums

Z adds syn; E adds anti

Posting a classic. Better than Spivak. I will fight you.

John&Courant > Apostol > Spivak

>not Stewart

why do you think it's better than spivak?

omg, kill yourself.

:( pls no bullying

Rudin > *

What are best books for self-teaching analysis and schedule/routine to have?

Made popping my CS cherry easy.

Didn't even bleed.

Best book for introductory fluid mechanics?

How do you set up C++ and editor?

I'm complete newbie to this

fuck, that looks cool.

It's time to make some drugs, boys

Is this a good book when compared to C++ Primer Plus?

Do the exercises

Baby Rudin
Munkres' Analysis on Manifolds
Fourier Analysis: An Introduction by Stein & Shakarchi
Complex Analysis by Stein & Shakarchi
Real Analysis: Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces by Stein & Shakarchi
Functional Analysis: Introduction to Further Topics in Analysis by Stein & Shakarchi
Real Analysis: Modern Techniques and Their Applications by Folland
Real and Complex Analysis by Rudin
Functional Analysis by Lax
Functional Analysis by Rudin

And tons and tons of anal lube

Download Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
Make a fake email address
Register VS with the fake email address

how does this compare to wald's book?

Amann and a lot of asking in MSE. It's pretty hard to self teach something that can get you stuck for hours if you don't know an obscure identity. Yes, I'm talking to you, Rudin.

Download notepad++ on windows or geany on linux (babby level editors that don't force you to go full autism on day one).
Install mingw64 on windows or g++ on linux and look up how to use them (the command is g++ -std=c++14 -o filename.cpp filename.out).

what if i have mac

Then go and fucking kill yourself.
Just kidding, actually, you can supposedly install xcode which comes with clang instead of g++ (I don't think it makes any difference), but then you have to install a lot of additional shit just to have a compiler. On the other hand, you can install homebrew to have dank package management like you do on linux, and then "brew install g++", and just choose a random text editor like textwrangler or whatever.

>competition math for ch*nks
no thanks

>better than spivak
lmao

t. brainlet who could never win at anything

and most people who win are whites

Well, I'm taking analysis for the first time and from my perspective so far Spivak is far superior.

yo does anyone know any good books about animal biology? a friend wants to start learning about it, just for fun. they got pretty good grades in alevel biology, so i guess undergrad first year kinda level stuff. thanks guys!

I need three textbooks, one for logic, one for combinatorics and one for graph theory. No combo textbooks each must be separate and comprehensive. Go!

>analysis
>spivak

what the fuck are you doing?

Shankar faggot

Introduction to Metamathematics by Kleene
Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms by Cameron
Modern Graph Theory by Bollobás

>brainlets

what you describe is how our brains naturally work. the more we dwell on a chapter, the more confused we can become. it is just better to read and then go for a walk then revisit and recall it a few times and boom, its there forever.

Best quality picture I could find. This book is amazing though. Use this as your main ODE text and you will not be disappointed.

Doesn't talk about fundamental matrices, Green's functions, or second order ODE with nonconstant coefficients. Other than this the book is complete.

(Honorable mentions in ODE: Tenenbaum and Waltman, both of these texts will give you what Haberman gives you.)

What good theoretical physics courses written by one/a couple of authors do you know?
1) Landau/Lifshitz
2) Walter Greiner
3) Florian Scheck
4) ...

Well there's the Feynman one I suppose? Never read it though.

What is mathematical background/prerequistie in general you need to use Landau?

Just find Riley's "Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering" and read its table of contents.

Spivak's calculus is a real analysis book.

Not much, at least for the first volume. But you should be *very* comfortable with trigonometry, (multivariable) calculus and basic differential equations. A number of "common sense" arguments rely, in one way or another, on functional analytic considerations, but you can skip those, as they do, relying on common sense.

Reccomendation of problem books to make sure I'm *very comfortable*?

why?

Where do I start learning category theory?

Bump

Are there any Veeky Forums book recommendation lists?

Classroom or library

Actually, maybe reading through Arnold's Mathematical Methods for Classical Mechanics (it's a textbooks but there are many problems inside chapters) would be a good way to test and solidify your knowledge

Another classic

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Assuming the book is attached to a lecture or a classroom situation

Before the lecture, I read the relevant information, rather quickly, but taking notes as I go and especially writing out parts I am confused on.

Then go to lecture, take notes.

Go home, look at notes I wrote up, do all the exercises. That's it.

Thanks.

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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
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Do They Think You're Stupid?: 100 Ways of Spotting Spin and Nonsense from the Media, Celebrities and Politicians

stop reading shit

Doing the problems in this book made all my programming interviews a joke

Have you read them, faggot?

>why?
Because there listed all topics that you should know to understand L-L. Definitely you should know calculus of variations and tensor analysis.

Hey can anyone recommend an entry level book for QFT? I have undergrad tier QM and special relativity knowledge. Also, what math background do I need?

These 3 books, are all you will ever need as a base to understand mathematics in any field

"Precalculus" - Sheldon Axler
precalculus.axler.net/
Explains the axioms of elementary algebra and introduces you to series and sets, binomial theorum, ect. Most importantly this book contains fully worked out solutions.

"Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel"- John Stillwell
press.princeton.edu/titles/10697.html
This book gives you a complete overview of all elementary fields, and explains all you will ever need to know about the basics and how they really work, like understanding irrational numbers through recursive proofs that never halt. You will discover almost all of math can be reduced to a handful of axioms, and get exposed to some advanced math to see how it all ties in to elementary topics.

"How to Solve It" - G Polya
press.princeton.edu/titles/669.html
This is a book on systematic problem solving. Knuth, when asked about how he learned math pointed out that he struggled with math in school and was threatened with expulsion, this motivated him to do every single problem in the assigned calculus book and continually drill himself with other books until "I learned how to solve problems, so math became easy". Solving problems is a skill learned with practice. This blog post is also relevant, this guy did the same approach which taught him how to solve problems calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-got-the-highest-grade-in-my-discrete-math-class/

(Optional) He further refined this by "learning how to read" which is another skill calnewport.com/blog/2014/07/04/how-to-read-proofs-faster-a-summary-of-useful-advice/ also explained here: pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf so you can be one of those so-called miracle smart people who can tear through technical papers and books on a weekly basis (but all you're doing is using a specific strategy, you're no smarter than anybody else).

I can't recommend this one enough to anyone who studies physical organic chemistry. The quantum mechanical concepts are well-explained with full calculations, and it reviews a lot of simpler chemistry concepts to grad-students or anyone who's been out of practice in that area for a while.

The only warning I can give is that a lot of the Molecular Orbital Theory is described using group-orbitals. If you like group-orbitals anyway and prefer more accurate modeling, it's perfect for you. But I prefer a simpler, more practical approach. Regardless, it doesn't change how great the text is.

Spivak even admits in the preamble that something like "introduction to analysis" would have been a more apt title, in hindsight. It's just that when he wrote it, there wasn't really a distinction between calculus and analysis (one being a subset of the other). The sort of mechanical, non-rigorous calculus we teach to first-years is a relatively recent meme.

Thank you for this.

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