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>prof chooses an open source math textbook for the course

>> No.10965424

>>10965410
good fuck overpriced textbooks

>> No.10965442

>>10965424
agreed

>> No.10965449
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10965449

>not a GPLed or GFDLed text

>> No.10965533

>not getting textbooks online for free

>> No.10965552

>professor chooses the most expensive book possible for the course
>it's literally $5000
>for a 6 month subscription

>> No.10965593
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>>10965410

>Always pirate books anyway so I don't care what book the prof chooses

>> No.10965623

>>10965593
*class requires code for online portion in your path*

>> No.10965631

>>10965593
btfo'd >>10965623

>> No.10965645

>>10965410
>prof gives out a free pdf copy of the textbook which he just rips from libgen

>> No.10965650

>>10965552
I dont believe this

>> No.10965681

>>10965650
I'm posting from the future.

>> No.10965711

>>10965410
nice, what book

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10965723

>>10965410
Is it this textbook by any chance?

>> No.10965730

>>10965723
i was just thinking that

>>10965410
or is it this OP?
http://www.topologywithouttears.net

>> No.10965849

>>10965723
>>10965730
nein

>> No.10966043
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10966043

>prof prints out his own textbooks specifically written for the course

>> No.10966354

>>10965623
>option to just buy the access code
I bought a used hardcover in person, I promise ;^)

>> No.10966768

>>10966043
This happens a lot

>> No.10966778

>>10965410
What's a good open source math textbook?

>> No.10966893

PRAISE LIBGEN.IS

>> No.10966922

That's great. The texbook business is a cronyist scam in some ways.

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>>10966043
literally almost always the case in germany

>> No.10966971

>>10965410
>Using the textbook at all
Just use notes and examples and get the book problems off chegg. For $15 a month you don't have to buy anything.

>> No.10967274

>>10966893
RIP libgen.io

>> No.10968323

>>10965410
My physics teacher is doing this.
Extremely based.

>> No.10968946

>>10965410
How is a textbook "open source"? Comes with a scan of the author's brain?

>> No.10968958

>>10965410
>american profs don't write their own courses
l
m
a
o

>> No.10970089

>>10968958
this

>> No.10970099

>>10968958
They do write their own courses and textbooks but only at the most prestigious schools. If you're going to fucking MIT or Harvard yeah sure, but at some no-name state school in bumfuck why bother.

>> No.10970105

>>10968323
Same, loving the money he's saving me

>> No.10970236

>>10965410
hahha fuck jews
>>10965645
based prof
>>10966971
or you could pay nothing ever. I know the jews will do something about this shit one day. but fuck them.
>>10968958
>math somehow changes and requires to be rewritten.
math didn't change nigger.

>> No.10970609

>Russian studying at Moscow State University
>Every single professor just openly tells us to pirate the book from libgen
Eh

>> No.10970619

>>10970609
>American university
>tell students to pirate books
>the next day a SWAT team bursts into your lecture room and arrests everyone, killing half the students in the process
>the american anthem plays in the background as you are sentenced to life in prison

>> No.10970626

>>10970609
>>10970619
In literally anywhere in the world except america profs would just tell you to rip it from libgen and mock you if you actually bought the $5000 book. I feel bad for burgers for being forced to buy expensive books just so the rest of the world can freely pirate it.

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>>10965723
Used this book for a proof workshop class and it's one of the most nicely written math books I've read. On top of that, it has a permissible license. Another book I found extremely useful was pic related.

>> No.10972332

>>10968946
Publisher has to provide LaTex source on request by anybody who bought a copy of the book.

Right?

>> No.10972335

>>10968946
it's the license they release it under.

>> No.10972497

>>10972265
I really liked picrel when I was first learning proofs as an undergrad

>> No.10972571

>>10970609
Change russian to any non cucked uni.