{"id":1879,"date":"2007-10-23T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/23\/dorky-poll-favorite-math-book\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T11:49:09","slug":"dorky-poll-favorite-math-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/23\/dorky-poll-favorite-math-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Favorite Math Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a doctor visit and a meeting schduled for this morning, which cut into my blogging time. And I have another<\/b> meeting in an hour, and I need to get lunch. This sounds like a job for a Dorky Poll!<\/p>\n

So here’s a quick pair of questions, based on a glance at my office shelves:<\/p>\n

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What’s your favorite math book? What’s your least favorite?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I ask this because looking at my bookshelves reveals that I have a number of books about math, and I don’t really like any of them. My least favorite is easy: Arfken’s Mathematical Methods for Physicists<\/cite>— it’s so completely useless that I’m not sure why I keep it around. But an active favorite…? I have a couple of calculus books that I’m neutral toward, and that’s about as good as it gets.<\/p>\n

But I know there are people who choose math as a career, so there must be people who actually like math books. So, what are some good ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a doctor visit and a meeting schduled for this morning, which cut into my blogging time. And I have another meeting in an hour, and I need to get lunch. This sounds like a job for a Dorky Poll! So here’s a quick pair of questions, based on a glance at my office… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Favorite Math Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}