Hi, I'm making a collection of mathematics textbooks. Would like to know if any of you have other collections that I can download to add to it. I already have Veeky Forums collection of books and the following from TPB: "MATH MATHEMATICS BOOK COLLECTION" , "Dover Mathematics Book Collection" , "Mathematics Book Collection - Diophantine".
I'll put this collection for download when it's done
There is a 'shortcut' for this, after the preliminary foundations you can often just dive into the exercises and try them first in any math text. For example I did Spivak's Calculus in highschool (well, most of it except the insanely difficult problems I had to math.stackexchange) so when it came time to do Apostol's Calculus I found I could do a large majority of the exercises already without even reading the material so skipped a few chapters. If you get hung up on one exercise just research the relevant information in the chapter until you can finish the problem. There's also some efficiency you can try to not get bogged down in papers calnewport.com/blog/2014/07/04/how-to-read-proofs-faster-a-summary-of-useful-advice/
That last part, if you live near a university you can attend free lectures given by visiting mathematicians. My university here has one of these a week or so, where somebody will come by and give a seminar. These are absolutely fantastic for filling in blanks and being able to ask direct questions (after the seminar of course) Just look up your closest universities events page math.ubc.ca/Dept/Events/