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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.

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Expository article on the Hilbert transform?

Is there a good expository article on the Hilbert transform, explaining the basic properties and the applications that serve as motivation for considering the transform worthy of attention?
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Can someone help me find a Mathematical documentary that aired on British television within the past 10 years about Leibniz?

I have been searching for a documentary that aired on British television between around 2006 and 2012 which was centred around the German Mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz. All that I can remember about the show is that it discussed his dispute with…
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Resource recommendations for learning Grade 10 Geometry and Algebra?

Is there any free online courses that would start from, say, 'grade-10' level in Geometry and Algebra? Please recommend books or websites for summaries of Euclidean Geometry and Pre-College Algebra? Summaries as in general ideas that get specific in…
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Cauchy's Cours D'Analyse

Is Cauchy's "Cauchy's Cours D'Analyse" available for free? Since I've seen Gauss' work for free and translated in internet, I'd like to know is there is an analog to Cauchy's famous work. I don't mind if it is in French, I guess I can handle it, but…
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High School Level Math Books?

I am in grade 11 in Canada, going to be taking Functions next semester. In grade 12 I will be taking both Advanced Functions and Calculus/Vectors. Are there any good books that I could buy to prepare for these courses and get a good grip on the…
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Books that follow axiomatic approach?

What are some maths textbooks that follow the "axiomatic approach"? (I would call it "theorem-proof" approach, but I'm more after books that start from the complete basics in a branch of math) What I consider "axiomatic approach" books: e.g.…
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Curiosity about a simple identity

Consider the well known formula $$1^3 + 2^3 +\cdots+ n^3 = (1+\cdots+n)^2 , n \in N$$ Now suppose that for all $n \in N$ the identity is true : $$1^k + 2^k +\cdots+ n^k = (1+\cdots+n)^{k-1} $$ with $k \in N$ fixed. Which is the possible values of…
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Disquisitiones Arithmeticae Chapter 8?

Does anyone know where I can find the posthumously published (I think) chapter 8 of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmaticae?
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Book on "Measure and integration" for starters.

This semester I have a course on Measure and Integration. I'd like you to recommend me some books.
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What are the prerequisites to smoothly reading Spivak's "Calculus"?

Must I already have a foundation in calculus to smoothly get through it? What about linear algebra, or topology, or some other field of mathematics? EDIT: I guess by "smoothly" I mean that you have enough knowledge that you won't have to go around…
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Journals comparable to MAA Monthly

What journals are comparable in their aim and coverage with Mathematical Association of America journals such as Monthly or College Mathematics Journal. For example is there an European equivalent? (This post reflects correction pointed out by …
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General bibliography for the work of Grothendieck

I'm reading the first volume of Scharlau's Grothendieck biography (eagerly anticipating the other two/three volumes) and the Grothendieck-Serre correspondence as part of a historical-philosophical side project. I find myself regularly digging up…
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Are there books introducing to Complex Analysis for people with algebraic background?

I'm a third year student who is mostly interested in commutative algebra. In Algebraic Geometry a lot of example come from Complex Analysis. So to deepen my understanding/intuition, I'll finally attend an Introduction to Complex Analysis lecture.…
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Local Weierstrass preparation

I could not find a reference of the local version of Weierstrass preparation theorem It is used for example in Denef & van den Dries "$p$-adic and real subanalytic sets". Can you help, thank you
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Reference request for preliminaries to Calculus, Algebra

I am studying calculus, real analysis, and abstract algebra. Sometimes while solving problems in books such as Apostol's calculus I get stuck because I need to refresh my preliminaries. The preliminaries I am referring to include: inequalities…
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