Where Can Students Find Free Science and Math Textbooks Online?

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The discussion revolves around the availability of free science and math textbooks online, with participants sharing various resources and personal experiences related to their usefulness for academic purposes.

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  • Exploratory, Homework-related

Main Points Raised

  • One participant lists several websites that provide free textbooks and course materials, covering a wide range of topics in science and mathematics.
  • Another participant expresses enthusiasm for the resources, noting their personal struggle with a current textbook and highlighting the benefits of a specific textbook found on one of the recommended sites.
  • A third participant offers a brief positive comment on the contributions made in the thread.
  • A fourth participant suggests that purchasing one's own textbook may also be a beneficial option.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the value of the shared resources, but there is no consensus on the best approach to obtaining textbooks, as one participant advocates for purchasing while others focus on free options.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express dissatisfaction with their current textbooks, indicating a reliance on external resources, but specific limitations of the shared resources are not discussed.

Who May Find This Useful

Students seeking free educational materials in science and mathematics, particularly those struggling with their current textbooks or looking for supplementary resources.

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The following websites offer thousands of free textbooks and course lecture notes, downloadable in pdf and other formats, searchable by topic, spanning sciences and mathematics of all types, levels, and branches.

http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml"

http://mathbooks.110mb.com/mylist.php"

http://www.freescience.info/index.php?cambia=en"

http://www.ams.org/online_bks/"

http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/DigitalLibraries.htm" (links to a host of other online book/text sources)
 
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Oh my god, I love you, I wish this had some a couple of days earlier so I could have taken advantage of it and not bombed...but at least I can use it for the final. I am taking advanced multivariable calculus right now and the textbook we are using is absolutely atrocious...terrible explanataions, no examples of 90% of the theorems they derive, barely any practice questions and no answers to them anyway so they're not much good...But right off the bat I found an awesome textbook on the "Textbooks in Mathematics" site that contains exactly the material from my course, and it has awesome explanations with examples and practice questions with answers :D
 
really wonderful work
 
I second best effect is to buy your own book.
 

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