{"id":4057,"date":"2015-12-29T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2015-12-30T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T00:34:12","slug":"older-books-currently-free-from-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/older-books-currently-free-from-springer\/","title":{"rendered":"Older books (were) currently free from Springer (- sorry, no longer)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And, it’s over – Springer appears to have shut the gates a day later. Mistake? Buzz-generating marketing ploy? Who knows? I’ll leave the rest of the post intact, but books\u00a0are no longer free. Some articles are, such as Knuth’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All\u00a0<\/em>books from Springer that are ten years old or older are free, go look<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Quoting\u00a0V\u00edt Tu\u010dek<\/a>\u00a0here, from Facebook (reposted by Pete Shirley):<\/p>\n

Springer has made a lot of math & physics books available online, for free! Everything that is more than 10 years old.<\/p>\n

If you don’t know which book you may want you can start here\u00a0http:\/\/mathoverflow.net\/questions\/tagged\/books<\/a><\/p>\n

This links to the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series:\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/R1EYrTrz5w
\n<\/a>
\nThis is for all materials (books, journals, chapters, articles) from all fields: http:\/\/goo.gl\/cB5rRc<\/a><\/p>\n

This excellent computational geometry book<\/a> is available (2nd Edition; the latest, 3rd edition<\/a> costs money), as is this older-but-worthwhile one<\/a>. For de Berg’s work,\u00a0the free version is the second edition; other than these errata fixes<\/a>, the 3rd edition’s major changes are that Chapter 7 includes information on Voronoi diagrams of line-segments and for farthest point, and Chapter 12 includes BSP trees for low-density scenes.<\/p>\n

There are also older computer graphics related books, e.g. this one<\/a>\u00a0and this<\/a>. Ancient, but the price is right, and some of this stuff doesn’t change.<\/p>\n

Handy list of direct links for the math & physics PDFs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Me, I’m digging around for various recreational math books. One of my favorite books, period, is here: One Jump Ahead<\/a><\/em>. There’s a recreational math book, Tracking the Automatic Ant<\/a><\/em>, a collection from the Mathematical Intelligencer.\u00a0Some bits of newer\u00a0stuff from the Mathematical Intelligencer is also available, e.g., an article on\u00a0mathematical vanity plates<\/a>\u00a0by Knuth, of all people. Some books I can’t find, as Springer’s searcher is pretty wonky, e.g. The Science of Cooking<\/a><\/em> appears to somehow not exist, though there’s a short article<\/a>\u00a0available by the author.<\/p>\n

Happy hunting, and email me<\/a> or let us know in the comments if you find any other gems related to computer graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, it’s over – Springer appears to have shut the gates a day later. Mistake? Buzz-generating marketing ploy? Who knows? I’ll leave the rest of the post intact, but books\u00a0are no longer free. Some articles are, such as Knuth’s. All\u00a0books from Springer that are ten years old or older are free, go look. Quoting\u00a0V\u00edt Tu\u010dek\u00a0here, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}