Tuesday, August 01, 2006

a personal library update.

today in the second floor atrium, there was a huge pile of mathematical books, many of them classics, and there was a sign which read:

free books

now i am eight books richer, though it's hard to say if i will ever seriously use them ..

.. but no matter. though there may be no such thing as a free lunch, there is such a thing as a free book!



i finally updated my LibraryThing mathematical book catalog, and again, you can view it here:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=grey_ghost

i'm up to ninety-five (95) books, though not all of them are that "mathematical." judge them as you like.

anyways, back to work. the theorem won't prove itself, after all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good choice overall. In my opinion,
"A mathematician's apology" << "A mathematician's miscellany"

Anonymous said...

And maybe there is no such thing as a free book either. Consider the added cost of moving stuff from AA to your postdoctoral location, and then to your TT location.

janus said...

about "free books," you're probably right.

likely there is no "free" anything; there is even a price for dying and a price for being born, i'd wager.