P.S - And I am not even talking about how pricey these books are! Perhaps this is one reason why China is leading both USA and India in fields of math and science. Respect for the subject which your people have helped develop over millennia is a precursor to respecting yourself, who you are and where you are from. Therefore if such books are continued to be published on paper that start crumbling and yellowing after a couple of years, it will be a huge disservice to both the author and the subject and to posterity as a whole.
When the day comes when someone advances Math or Physics in a fundamental way and thereby creates a tectonic shift the odds of him or her having picked up their knowledge of the subject from these kinds of books will be massive. Granted they do not sell as much as textbooks but they preserve and disseminate knowledge in a way no textbook ever can. American publishers such as this one and Basic Books that publishes Leonard Susskind's Theoretical Minimum books do a great disservice by publishing math & science Classics such as these on toilet paper. This is the book that a young Feynman allegedly learnt calculus from. One star minus for extremely poor paper quality. Thompson también escribió un texto de física popular, Lecciones elementales en electricidad y magnetismo, así como biografías de Lord Kelvin y Michael Faraday. La publicación más duradera de Thompson es su texto de 1910 Calculus Made Easy, que enseña los fundamentos del cálculo infinitesimal, y todavía está impreso. Fue elegido miembro de la Royal Society en 1891 y era conocido por su trabajo como ingeniero eléctrico y como autor. Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 de junio de 1851 - 12 de junio de 1916) fue profesor de física en el City and Guilds Technical College en Finsbury, Inglaterra.
Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.
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