Timeline for Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
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| Dec 4, 2023 at 14:53 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Maybe the real question is ... when will AI become good enough to OCR old math books? | |
| Aug 11, 2022 at 5:15 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 23:02 | answer | added | andres | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 9:20 | answer | added | Desiderius Severus | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 8:57 | answer | added | Phil Harmsworth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 12:51 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2020 at 20:05 | answer | added | elidiot | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 9:09 | answer | added | Zhipu 'Wilson' Zhao | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 0:52 | answer | added | anon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 4, 2019 at 1:08 | answer | added | Zhipu 'Wilson' Zhao | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 1, 2019 at 10:23 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 14:01 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 7:32 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2019 at 15:25 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2019 at 7:45 | comment | added | none | von Neumann's Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics badly needed this for a long time (it was printed from a typewritten manuscript with handwritten math). In 2018, someone published a TeXified edition through Princeton Univ. Press. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously expensive (link). I wonder if this oldbookstonew project might have gotten to it first and gotten PUP to make it more affordable, and if there are other opportunities like that. | |
| Apr 30, 2019 at 17:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 30, 2019 at 16:44 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 18:23 | comment | added | Oleg Lobachev | I meant one of those you mentioned already. | |
| Mar 17, 2019 at 22:14 | comment | added | user114668 | @OlegLobachev I thought you meant Dover, but since that is such a commonplace word, you probably would not have had to worry about ads (same with Cambridge, Oxford etc.) So now I wonder which publisher I do not know about? Any hints? | |
| Mar 17, 2019 at 12:19 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 16, 2019 at 19:28 | answer | added | Daniele Tampieri | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 6:34 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2019 at 7:07 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 8:41 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 8:20 | comment | added | Nathaniel Bubis | I'll add that typing up the LaTeX yourself is probably a waste of time - there are automated computer vision solutions that will convert a scanned document to LaTeX for you, cutting down a large percent of the effort. | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 7:27 | answer | added | C.F.G | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 26, 2018 at 7:09 | history | edited | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | user153330 | at the undergraduate level i'd love to see spivak's calculus on manifolds with a more refined edition | |
| Dec 25, 2018 at 7:14 | comment | added | copper.hat | I would like to see contemporary books printed on the much thinner paper that was used long ago. | |
| Dec 24, 2018 at 15:13 | answer | added | Michael Bächtold | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 20:21 | history | edited | wchargin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed typesetting of \LaTeX
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| Dec 23, 2018 at 17:47 | answer | added | none | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 16:44 | answer | added | Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 16:28 | answer | added | Truong | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 16:18 | answer | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 23, 2018 at 12:43 | answer | added | mickep | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 21:44 | history | edited | John Dallman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Improve accuracy of title
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| Dec 22, 2018 at 18:34 | answer | added | user90041 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 18:29 | answer | added | user90041 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 16:17 | answer | added | John D. Cook | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 16:16 | comment | added | Oleg Lobachev | Remember that there is a certain publisher who reprint the out-of-print math books for cheap. But they do it as an identical copy to earlier editions. Not telling the publusher to omit ads. | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 14:47 | comment | added | Mnifldz | I have too little rep to post an answer: "Riemannian Geometry, Fibre Bundles, Kaluza-Klein Theories and All That..." by Jadczyk and Coquereaux. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 13:28 | answer | added | Surb | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 0:22 | answer | added | lhf | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 20, 2018 at 18:38 | comment | added | Earthliŋ | Some answers seem to be misunderstanding the question as "what old books would you like to be freely available as a PDF with high-quality typesetting"... | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 18:21 | answer | added | Mike Shulman | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | user1073 | Is this question potentially a duplicate of: mathoverflow.net/questions/64905/… | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 7:08 | comment | added | C.F.G | Our goal is not just high-quality for printed version. Electronic version that has clickable links and cross-references is a good feature. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 23:33 | answer | added | Wlod AA | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro | I agree with Ben McKay, Besse's Einstein Manifolds is not really a good example. Its typesetting quality is as good as you can get. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 13:15 | answer | added | N. Virgo | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 12:39 | history | protected | Yemon Choi | ||
| Dec 18, 2018 at 12:20 | answer | added | Liam Baker | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 12:16 | answer | added | Liam Baker | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 12:01 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Some advice, having seen projects like this started and abandoned: It's probably a lot more reasonable to 'remaster' a bunch of small works rather than invest time in one big one. This also allows you to do it in secret and put it up on one or another Russian website we all use before anyone inconvenient gets word of it... | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 9:07 | answer | added | Alex Jones | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 9:03 | answer | added | Ben McKay | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 7:13 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson |
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| Dec 18, 2018 at 3:31 | comment | added | user133610 | @CarloBeenakker the OP didn't say what they intend to do after copying the books, but it would seem to fall under the fair use exemption if it is for criticism/classroom use and they don't distribute the copies that they make outside of the classroom. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 2:47 | answer | added | Kapil | timeline score: 25 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 1:49 | answer | added | Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 1:37 | answer | added | Dean Humphus | timeline score: -5 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 1:25 | comment | added | Forever Mozart | In addition to "high quality typesetting", I hope you will aim for "high quality printing and binding". | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 0:55 | answer | added | Dour High Arch | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 0:14 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Dec 18, 2018 at 0:09 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 23:48 | answer | added | pavl0 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 23:32 | answer | added | Konstantinos Kanakoglou | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 22:45 | answer | added | Forever Mozart | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 22:06 | comment | added | shalop | John Walsh’s book on spde. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:14 | answer | added | zzz | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:12 | answer | added | user133599 | timeline score: 47 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 20:07 | comment | added | juan | Elsevier notified Yves Meyer that the copies of his book "Algebraic numbers and Harmonic analysis" was to be destroyed. Because they do not want to store them. Some months ago an old copy was in Amazon for 1000$, now there are none. How can they ask for rights of copyrights? | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 19:49 | answer | added | Ryan Tully-Doyle | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | user3067860 | Side note, Project Gutenberg is associated with Distributed Proofreaders which is a group converting very old (out of copyright) work into high quality electronic versions. Sometimes they have math texts for proofreading. pgdp.net | |
| S Dec 17, 2018 at 18:36 | history | suggested | kingsfoil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:54 | answer | added | Neal | timeline score: 61 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:45 | answer | added | Praphulla Koushik | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:41 | answer | added | Praphulla Koushik | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:37 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 57 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 15:14 | comment | added | Ben McKay | Besse's Einstein Manifolds has excellent quality typesetting, so perhaps you would rather mention something older, like Bott's beautiful Lectures on Characteristic Classes and Foliations. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | Ben Burns | Project Gutenberg (edit: a non-profit that exists to enable electronic access to public domain works) has a helpful FAQ about re-releasing works (in the US) without copyright restrictions. The "easy" standard is any edition published before 1923 is always fine, with some exceptions for more recent works. See gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ and of course, consult a lawyer. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:49 | answer | added | Joe Silverman | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:16 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | Similarly, the 4 volumes of the Cabal series of proceedings in set theory are in the process of being reissued, with comentary, some updates, and new papers. Three have appeared already, the last one is expected in 2019. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 14:15 | answer | added | user1073 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:34 | answer | added | godelian | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:27 | comment | added | Wojowu | Not an answer since this already happened, but I would like to mention that Marcus' book Number Fields has rather recently been rewritten just like that. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:25 | answer | added | efs | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 13:17 | answer | added | Andrej Bauer | timeline score: 24 | |
| S Dec 17, 2018 at 13:07 | history | suggested | Somos | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
$\LaTeX$ is better.
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 12:45 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | You could ask the people involved in the TAC Reprints series tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints/index.html how they approached the associated copyright issues | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 12:34 | answer | added | Michael Greinecker | timeline score: 19 | |
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 12:03 | answer | added | Per Alexandersson | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 11:43 | history | edited | Alexey Ustinov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2018 at 11:21 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | I'm surely not the only one who hopes you'll do it anyway. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 9:44 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | I'm afraid not without asking permission from copyright holders. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 8:24 | comment | added | C.F.G | Is there any legal way to do this work? | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | wouldn't you run into copyright restrictions? (it typically takes author's life time + 70 years to expire...) | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 8:12 | history | asked | C.F.G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |