Timeline for Most helpful math resources on the web
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| Nov 15, 2014 at 19:14 | comment | added | Pablo Lessa | Google books also provides bibtex entries. Which is pretty useful to me. | |
| Jun 4, 2010 at 17:43 | comment | added | mathphysicist | The preface/introduction parts can be often found in the book preview on amazon.com. For the books published by the AMS these are often availble right on the AMS bookstore website (ams.org/bookstore). | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 16:41 | comment | added | Anonymous | An annoying feature of this site is that a lot of the book portions do not include the preface or introduction which is usually the first thing I want to read about a book. | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 14:24 | comment | added | Sam Nead | One extremely useful way to use Google Books is as an "instant index." For example, I have the book ZZZ open in front of me. There is a term yyy I don't know the definition of. I look up yyy in the index of ZZZ. Ooops, no index! So I search for yyy at the Google Books page for ZZZ and order by pages. Done. | |
| Oct 23, 2009 at 20:40 | history | answered | Qiaochu Yuan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |