[HN Gopher] Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography (1999)
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       Chicago undergraduate mathematics bibliography (1999)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-04-29 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ocf.berkeley.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ocf.berkeley.edu)
        
       | czep wrote:
       | <Immediately clicks to Calculus>... "Spivak". Yup, list is legit.
        
         | bodhiandpysics1 wrote:
         | The physics list is even better!
        
       | vechagup wrote:
       | Oh God, Spivak. The name gives me flashbacks to my first year at
       | U of C. I arrived thinking I was smart about math things. That
       | book humbled me bad. A tough beginning to four tough, lonely
       | years.
        
         | bodhiandpysics1 wrote:
         | Spivak is brutal. But's its powerful medicine. There's a reason
         | why the U of C can have large numbers of students take real
         | analysis in their second year! Getting through spivak makes
         | analysis much much easier
        
         | czep wrote:
         | To this day I still actually have a physical reaction of nausea
         | when hearing the numbers 162 and 163.
        
       | airocker wrote:
       | Can anyone please make a mooc for it? Anyone here at coursera or
       | udacity etc on why there are no good math moocs?
        
       | arunc wrote:
       | Very simple in design, neat, to the point. Does anyone know if
       | there's a Jekyll template that generates such a neat/nostalgic
       | output?
        
         | daoxid wrote:
         | Just delete all CSS files!
        
           | nerdponx wrote:
           | This isn't a joke.
           | 
           | The webpage has no stylesheet.
           | 
           | This is just how web browsers have rendered unstyled text for
           | as long as I've been using web browsers (probably about as
           | long as this website has existed).
        
             | Tomte wrote:
             | I mean, just look at it. HTML 4 Transitional. Uppercase
             | tags. And a note from the author that browsers don't handle
             | the "new" standard completely, yet.
             | 
             | It's a gem.
        
       | magnio wrote:
       | > Dummit/Foote, Abstract algebra
       | 
       | > In fact, overall I would use this book as a reference instead
       | of a primary text, because the idea of reading it through from
       | start to finish scares me.
       | 
       | That tome scared me too. If you want to self-study abstract
       | algebra, either Fraleigh's "A First Course in Abstract Algebra"
       | or Paulsen's "Abstract Algebra: An Interactive Approach" is a
       | better choice IMHO. Both are more accessible, come with detailed
       | explanations, and the Paulsen book is even accompanied by
       | SageMath code snippets for you to run.
        
       | szhu wrote:
       | I see a lot of affiliations mentioned in the page, and I think I
       | might be missing some context.
       | 
       | What's the relationship between the author (Chris Jeris) and the
       | OCF user hosting the content (Abhishek Roy)? Also, what is
       | Chicago in the title referencing?
        
         | bodhiandphysics wrote:
         | The university of chicago
        
       | cobaltoxide wrote:
       | Shout-out to UC Berkeley's Open Computing Facility (OCF) which
       | has managed to host this content for decades.
        
       | madcaptenor wrote:
       | I'm amazed this is still live - I've literally been seeing this
       | listing on and off for two decades.
       | 
       | It could probably use some updating.
       | 
       | There's also a physics version:
       | https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicphys.htm
        
       | markgall wrote:
       | It's surprising how little the list has changed since then,
       | really, at the more advanced end: at my place we still teach real
       | analysis from Rudin, complex from Ahlfors, commutative algebra
       | from Atiyah-Macdonold, riemannian geometry from do Carmo, alg geo
       | from Shafarevich and Hartshorne,.. There are good competitors to
       | some of these now but inertia is strong. (And if anyone has
       | figured out how to teach a good intro to schemes out of Vakil's
       | behemoth of a book, let me know...)
        
         | ipnon wrote:
         | There seems to be only so much one can cram into an
         | undergraduate's cranium in 4 years. Consequently the average
         | time spent getting Ph.D. is increasing.
        
         | fspeech wrote:
         | Varkil himself taught a "Algebraic Geometry in the Time of
         | COVID" last year:
         | https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCy3u23mZE4TyW88yr6JLx9A/video...
        
       | chobytes wrote:
       | I wish we had started with Spivak! Reading Rudin after 3
       | semesters of Stewart was a lot.
        
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