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This tag is for questions seeking external references (books, articles, etc.) about a particular subject. Please do not use this as the only tag for a question.

This tag is for questions seeking external references (books, articles, websites, etc.) about a particular subject. It is intended for use along with other, more "mathematical" tags. Please do not use this as the only tag for your questions. See this discussion on Meta.

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Reselling Books

Are there any good places for me to sell off my mathematics books online especially Springer and Dover books? (I thought perhaps this was off topic, but then I thought everybody in math probably has the problem of having bought pricey books that…
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Reference request: Functional equations for math competitions

I'm looking for some articles and resources to study functional equations to prepare for a math contest. I found some books on the internet but none of them have been written for math contests, but their readers are mainly intended to be graduate…
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What are some good introductory books on complex analysis?

I am looking for self study books or general interest (above the layman level) books on complex analysis.
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Which branch of mathematics does study something like what Hilbert did in this example, and what are the introductory references?

While I am reading in The Higher Arithmetic , I found this example the proof that the factorization is unique is not so immediate. The following illustration, given by Hilbert, explains why these two propositions are on such a different footing…
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un-named theorems in Baby Rudin

I want to know all unnamed things in Baby Rudin I have some questions about the book--Rudin's 《Principle of Mathematical Analysis》 I want to know some errors/flaws of the book, how can I find them? the third edition. I want to know some Appendix…
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Trying to identify old book

About 65 years ago my local library at the time had a fascinating book that I borrowed many times. I am trying to track it down but have forgotten both the title and the authors. What I can remember is that it contained diagrams of all the nets of…
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Probability, Random Walk, Distance from Origin after N steps in 2 and 3 dimensions

I am looking for a formula of the distance from Origin after N equal steps in random directions in a 2 or 3 dimensional spaces. Can someone help me with a reference to a book, article or any publication dealing with this subject? Thanks!
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A Question about the _Mathematics Student Journal_

I was reading Anneli Lax's excellent monograph on Linear Algebra and she refers to learning methods to yield $f_n$ (the $n^{th}$ Fibonacci number) directly (without first calculating $f_i \forall i
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about the converse of the Lebesgue dominated convergence

In this book http://books.google.com.br/books/about/Fundamentals_of_Applied_Functional_Analy.html?id=Od5BxTEN0VsC&redir_esc=y I found the following theorem (page 48): Theorem(Partial converse of Lebesgue theorem): Assume that $(u_k)$ is a sequence…
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Is there a book called "mathematical pranks"?

A friend told me that there is a book named something like "Mathematical pranks" which lists tricks to mathematically fool and prank your friends like fake and false proofs that look ok and so. But I can't find the book. Do you have an idea what I'm…
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Where to find Rudin's references.

Principles of mathematical analysis(Rudin) comes with various references to proves and results that have appeared in several magazines such as A.m.s and Monthly Math, but I have entered these pages and I actually don't know how to look for the…
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Kummer's 1844 Book in Latin about $\Bbb Z[\zeta_n]$

Kummer wrote a book in 1844 entitled "De Numeris Complexis, Qui Radicibus Unitatis Et Numeris Integris Realibus Constant" (About Complex Numbers, Which Consist Of Roots Of Unity And Real Integral Numbers), but I cannot find its online text anywhere;…
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Ring of integers of p-adic field

My tutor recently mentioned the following result: "For any complete discretely valued extension $K$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with perfect residue field $k$, the ring of integers $\mathcal{O}_K$ can be written as a quotient of $W(k)[[T]]$ by a principal…
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Topics to Study and Books to Read?

I'm an undergraduate studying materials science and engineering with a concentration in polymer science. I would like to go to graduate school and focus on theory and computation of synthetic polymer and biopolymer systems. So I'm planning of…
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References on tetrahedra

I’ve recently been interested in tetrahedra. What made me interested is the “fascinating” resemblence between tetrahedra and triangles. For instance in a trerectangular tetrahedron the square of the area of the “hypotenuse” face equals the sum of…
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