Springer just made books oder than 10 years downloadable for free:
http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%22136%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false
nice!
springer books are always so expensive
what the hell
i mean, cool, but, this doesn't seem like something they'd do
>>7749681
To undermine support for libgen like sites. Also, most of their books are free already through major university's library portals.
>no medicine
>no bio
>no chemistry
discarded
>>7749723
...Why would the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series have any of those?
Fukkin' sweet
Hermit mode engaged
>>7749694
That's because of subscriptions. Free is different.
>>7749431
Thank you. You just made my day with those.
>>7749723
I too discard medicine, bio and chem books.
I'm still unsure if they made all older books available for free. But still, this is fucking awesome.
>>7749723
There are bio, med and chem books, you just gotta make a different search.
http://link.springer.com/search?facet-discipline=%22Biomedical+Sciences%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&date-facet-mode=between&facet-start-year=1878&previous-start-year=1878&facet-end-year=2004&previous-end-year=2016
>>7750175
I've found some older books that aren't free.
>But still, this is fucking awesome.
QFT
>>7749723
>literally retarded and illiterate
>>7749431
good stuff thanks OP
They figured they may as well because there is no way they are enforcing copyright on them.
Any way to download them all?
>>7750345
just took a look real quick, you should be able to do it with a python script:
>search for the books you want
>Click on "Download Search Results (CSV)"
>Open CSV
>Extract list of links
>append ".pdf" to each link
>Download list of links
>>7750385
Check the comments here
https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a
People have already written batch download scripts (some even for parallel downloads) The entire collection (412 books) is 11.8 Gigs. Downloading now. But not sure how to share it with the rest of y'all.
Any of these are up to a noobi undergrad?
>>7751578
Undergraduate series: http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%22666%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false
Universitext series (master): http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%22223%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22&showAll=false
Any math/physics book recommendations for the keen undergraduate?
>>7749431
Does anyone know if this was intentional and if it's a limited time deal?
>>7751537
Any idea how complete that list is? I mean if it is actually all Springer books then I know right off the bat that there's a fuckton of books missing (Springer has an insane number of series, not just UTM, GTM, and UTX; and not just in math). Did they use some clever trick to find them all (is there a forum post or something detailing where this stuff originated)?
Something that may be worth mentioning is that Aaron Swartz got arrested for a bunch of computer crimes and was charged of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, etc.. All because he wrote a script to automatically download jstor documents for him (as retarded as that sounds).
I'm not saying people shouldn't be downloading this stuff but you may want to be careful about it.
>>7751578
Yes. Especially in the UTM (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) series. Halmos' Naive Set Theory text is considered to be a very fun undergrad intro to math.
>>7751628
Universitext (UTX) are kind of hit or miss in my experience. They're actually aimed at grad students who want to do more in depth study but the level and quality of the material seems to vary a lot so they're occasionally used in undergrad courses. Definitely still worth looking through.
>>7751643
>Physics
No idea.
>Math
look through UTM series.
>>7751767
>>Yes. Especially in the UTM (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) series. Halmos' Naive Set Theory text is considered to be a very fun undergrad intro to math.
how fun is it, can i teach myself this stuff if i wanted to?
>>7751790
Set theory is tricky in the sense that you get a better grasp of it when the simple concepts it develops are used in other areas of math (like probability, analysis).
You can teach yourself set theory, but you will find yourself coming back to it time and again.
(my opinions of course)
(also I am a pleb)
>>7751767
>Any idea how complete that list is? I mean if it is actually all Springer books then I know right off the bat that there's a fuckton of books missing (Springer has an insane number of series, not just UTM, GTM, and UTX; and not just in math). Did they use some clever trick to find them all (is there a forum post or something detailing where this stuff originated)?
The list is only for math texts. You can ask the author of the github page to know more.
>>7751790
Give it a try anon. It's a naive set theory book (not axiomatic set theory) so it basically gives you a quick crash course on the basics of set theory in the way that most people use them (the axiomatic method is more abstract and has a bunch of rules and formalisms that most people find difficult and avoid). That said this is the proverbial short book for naive set theory (very short and very approachable). Halmos is also known for writing things at an approachable level. The only complaint I can imagine people having about the book is that it's "too easy".
Naive set theory deals with basic stuff like what are sets, ordered pairs, n-tuples, functions, relations, power sets, families of sets, etc.. in terms of set theory.
>>7751871
I disagree with everything about this. Especially since these topics require you to deal with uncountably infinite sets and also require you to make use of the axiom of choice without even knowing which type your using or when. Not to mention that in order to even just talk about the real numbers you have to dip into second order logic. Also, axiomatic set theory has very little to do with either of these topics as well (for instance you never deal with higher cardinals when doing probability theory or basic analysis.
>>7749431
Here are some more links I found through googling around.
Statistics books
https://gist.github.com/simpsonm/322d0912bab97abbbf06
LNM series (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) - split into 4 parts.
https://gist.github.com/akalin/9081194f0cdf605e8038
https://gist.github.com/akalin/c7c15ba9968e59072de5
https://gist.github.com/akalin/f846e48c4fec0ec0d15f
https://gist.github.com/akalin/2ff3d868f1512dee2bd4
A guide for making other gists.
https://github.com/akalin/get-springer-books
Some sort of giant list.
http://jsfiddle.net/y9pts6da/embedded/result/
>>7749723
I am in heaven downloading all these advanced organic chemistry texts senpai.
Please someone somewhere make a torrent of this
I can only download 2GB at a time at night in this shithole and despiritely need some graduate math literature to read before going to bed.
now all we have to do is on one hand write to every author that was harmed to they sue springer and on the other to blackmail them somehow into giving all the access back to us
kek
is it over? did they stop offering downloads?
>>7752821
Please for the love of all that is holy give us some of the textbooks you lucky wonderful bastards got before it shut itself off.
>>7752821
it's over.
>>7752757
No author was harmed. Springer has full copyright of all their work and they can do whatever they want with it.
>>7752839
i got all of the ones on the github except berger's differential geometry
i'm scared to make a torrent or anything though because i already get angry letters from my ISP for stupid stuff
what do?
>>7752839
Everything on libgen anyway. The only good thing here was that it was fully legal for a while.
>>7752865
Rent a seedbox for a few days.
>>7752874
pls do this
>>7752508
https://mega.nz/#F!axkQSZIZ!gYqImXWAhKWqnxZO0LyP9Q
There's also a torrent for GTM books on Kickass.
I don't think anyone managed to get the LNM (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) series though nor any logic/model theory/proof theory books from the philosophy series'. It's a shame because that's more along the lines of what I was looking for.
