Ask HN: Links to older resources like Calculus Made Easy

9 points·bryanrasmussen··4 comments

This recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257303 made me wonder if there were any old resources, and I would say 100 years or older should be the requirement, on subjects or a mathematical, technical or scientific nature that are a better introduction than most of today's works.

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Here: https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_mathematics

Hilbert, Courant, Bourbaki, Hadley, Dieudonné, Hardy, Descartes, Cauchy... They're all there. Could last you a lifetime.

For more "recent" ones, there's https://mirtitles.org/, which specializes in Soviet era books from MIR Publishers or, as I've known them in my translated college textbooks, "Éditions MIR". Demidovich, Smirnov, Piskunov, Kolmogorov, Tarasov, Irodov, they're all there...

As an aside, look at "Cours d'Analyse de l'École Polytechnique" by Augustin-Louis Cauchy in 1821. Look at the typography, the layout, table of contents. Pretty LaTeX like if you ask me. The last paragraph of the introduction where he thanks people who've helped him... Poisson, Ampère, and Coriolis. Damn.

Good question! Here is one that I thought of: http://507movements.com/

that's great, I've seen that before but forgot it, I just found a review of it in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260691262_Five_Hund...

What is mathematics? It helped Einstein to understand maths.

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