I just watched the 2nd lecture for my current (6th of 10) master's class, History of Math, and the instructor said that the textbook readings in the syllabus are not required. They're great background information but...
Are you kidding me? I paid over $100 on Amazon for a used copy of that book! What the heck?
a) you might be intrinsically interested and b) amazon has a fantastic return police y. They will pay you to ship it back.
ReplyDeleteI *am* intrinsically interested--which is why I already have a math history book I bought years ago!
ReplyDeleteAnd I bought this book from one of Amazon's affiliates so I'm not sure how the return policy works--but it doesn't matter, because the OCD in me requires me to read the not-quite-assigned material anyway.
The return policy is the same for affiliates.
ReplyDeleteTextbook sales is a money game. Many professors require their own books then never use them. The worst case I heard of was a professor that required students to buy a $150 British lit book then told them to tear out the cover page-which most of them didn't realize at the time made the book impossible to resell. Evil. I swear all my Art History books were priced by the pound. Not a one of them were under $100 even used.
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