Math You Have Never Seen
This is a super thick book. It is a Mathematical Handbook on Higher Mathematics and it was written by Vygodsky. It was published by MIR Publishers Moscow. This book is out of print and is considered a collectible. It contains math topics that are no longer commonly taught today.
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In the seventies, when I was at school in the former USSR, we had 6-8 hours every week with mathematics lessons. After school, we had mathematical club (kruzok), as well as chess, physics, chemistry, and biology. The strongest in classes would sit together with a weaker classmate to explain the difficult parts. Our grades would depend on the daily testing (everybody would get a 5-minute small written test before the lesson starts) and at least 2-3 control exams every 3 months, besides the final control test by the end of the semester.
This is why Russians are so extremely intelligent in all disciplines; math is the foundation of everything else. I love all my fellow slavs!
@CriptotradingMath, I think you missed the point. URSS did this. Russia is behind on everything after capitalism hit them
@@ShadowMind312 No, critical thinking is the foundation of everything. Math grew out of philosophy. And this is why you can ask most STEM majors to cook an omellette and the first thing they will do is double click on Excel.
@@carltoncotter2614r/iamverysmart
@carltoncotter2614 good points sir!
I am from Kerala, India; in the 80s and 90s, MIR publishers used to publish books in Malayalam (the language spoken in Kerala) to promote science and maths. It motivated me to take engineering later. I still remember reading Yakov Perelman's physics books published in Malayalam.
Wow,
ivideyum malayali 😄
@@Travelnbites bro
Yesss.... Perelman's Physics can be fun started my love for Physics. And I read it in Bengali !!!
Malayali pewer monee
I bought a copy in 1983 or 1984 in India ! Brings back memories of wonderfully cheap and well-written books.
Wow!
@@TheMathSorcererThanks for all your videos. Donyou think you cN respond to my other question about sum of squares of integers when you can? Thanks very much.
Author Mark Yakovlevich Vygodsky (Марк Яковлевич Выгодский). That photo at the beginning of the book, is the author himself. This book in Russian cost less than $1 in some post-soviet countries. It was used by engineers as a reference book in CCCP, the book is very concise but covers a lot of areas from mathematics. Actually this book is nothing special, but when you have no computers and google there is no other choice.
популярней был Бронштейн/Семендяев (проще)😁
@@graywhite1529 Бронштейн и Г. Корн, Т. Корн. Я по ним матан учил
@@sdragoffWhat does this mean? Any translation?
@@jktekkerz8735 Bronshtein and Semendyayev, G. A. Korn, and T. M. Korn. I mostly used these books to learn mathematical analysis (matan in rus) in university.
I have the original 1966 version of this book, and it is already an 8th edition. And it is a real pocketbook - just 11 by 17 cm (and 4.5 cm thick), or about 4"x7"x2" it is really more a quick reference guide.
mine are from the late 50s. I need to do something to preserve the books but i don't know how.
@@batnersearch on the internet. Keep them away of water and humidity
Love your content Math Sorcerer its great to see these gems of books!
MIR Publishers was a soviet company that went bankrupt around 2008. Their books covered math, physics and engineering and were quite cheap, well translated and easily available in Spain in the late 80s and early 90s, There was a bookshop in Madrid, Rubiños, that imported and distributed them.
Wikipedia: "In 2008, the company faced a bankruptcy case.[4] The case was closed by the Moscow Arbitral Court on June 2, 2009[5] because the publishing house had paid completely the debt to the creditors."
Same in São Paulo, Brazil
I have this one. Best for quick revision of concepts and formulas, man that final chapter on curves is just beautiful.
During my school years, a relative gave me Vygodsky’s reference book for the school mathematics course. This was a great guide!
There is also a similar physic book. B.M. Javorskij - A.A. Detlaf, "Physic handbook", MIR, Moscow, 1977, pp. 764. ;)
I have that one but paperback edition
I have that one! I also have four volumes of "Fundamentals of Machine Design".
@@DeGuerre i also wanted to buy p orlov fundamentals of machine design but couldn't get it
@@DeGuerre there are 5 volumes if I'm not wrong
@@Fekuchand_As you can see, I'm missing one.
I enjoy math but I love books. I subscribed because of your appreciation of books. Cool video, by a cool guy, thank you!
v cool book - and v cool channel. Thank you for your content. I am a professor in linguistics, but next year when I retire, I will pursue mathematics as one of my hobbies.
How exciting! I have Vygodsky's Elementary Mathematics Handbook! So nice to see the higher maths version on your channel. The elementary maths handbook isn't just limited to elementary school maths, as it starts from basic addition and subtraction, but then it goes through algebra and geometry, and all the way up to the basics of limits! Very few workable examples in the book though - a practice book, perhaps a Schaum's Outline, would be needed to accompany it. Lots of great books were published in the Soviet Union. Thanks, Sorcerer!
I have both handbooks - purchased in the late 1970s on the recommendation of a Cuban math professor I knew in Australia.
My copy of Higher Mathematics cost AUD 6.95. Elementary Mathematics cost AUD4.50.
I graduated engineering quite recently and it surprised me how this books covers almost everything in the order i got thought it. Would have been a great handbook almost 50 years later.
My late and wonderful mathematician father had this book in his collection. Always stood up from others. Miss you father 😢
The picture in the book, the man is using a compass not a protractor.
Absolutely. I had one in my school days. God, it's been so long time ago!
Thankyou
he has those typical round soviet glasses- you can see it on other photos of the era
He is holding the compass but is also using a protractor
@@acedlovesclips Ha ha ha . I do not see the protractor .
I am ordering this book in Russian, my native language! I've never heard of this mathematician, very interested. Thank you, Math Sorcerer!
I've just watched this video and immediately ordered this book for myself. I think I need it, too!
I like how you emphasized that the pages are "very thin". Most of people probably have no idea what you mean here, but you just reminded me about certain problem book from mathematical analysis that I had in cyrillic, which had these very thin pages too! Quite pleasant in touch, a really exquisite feeling! 🙂
The thinnest pages I have ever found are in Taber's Medical dictionary. Next candidate would be Machinery's Handbook. I don't know who started this new trend of thinning books as much as possible. Thick pages last longer, and a chonky book just feels more... bookish. Portability? We have smartphones ffs.
Thank you for sharing this incredible book. I want one. Also the preceding version as well.
Thank you for your review. As someone who was born and educated both in USSR and USA cannot agree with you more. Lobachevskiy, Kolmogorov, Perelman, only a few mathematicians among many others made enormous contribution to the advancement of mathematical science.
This brings so much memories from my IIT JEE preparation time (India): I E Irodov and Krotov physics book problems were so difficult but fun!
Thank you. I also like a handbook with beautiful printing and layout. Many textbooks are not easy to carry around.
Loved the reading of that book. That was quite pleasing and interestingly simple to absorb. Enjoyed the raised printing, and your funny sniffing was pretty cool, but mostly i enjoyed how simply the author's explanations were. Very easy to comprehend and quite enjoyable !!!! Wish you could have read that whole book !! I was soooo happily loving it, and pretty sad when you stopped reading. 😭.....😂😂
I bought this book in early 1981 when I was in undergrad physics. I still have that book, and use it too. He also wrote another Mathematical Handbook "Elementary Mathematics" more a high school level rudimentary book. Mine are yellowed but I still take good care of them. Mir went out of business in early 1990's after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2:00 - It's a compass, not a protractor.
I also caught this mistake immediately when I first heard it around 2:00.. but my viewing was 2 weeks after yours. Good you made First Comment. I assumed someone heard it before me so searched for an entry. Congrats for your accurate observation. Agreed: a Compass is Not a Protractor.. :)
Oh, this is the Vygodsky handbook! There is also a handbook book on elementary mathematics from this author. In my country, the book is quite popular and easy to buy, but the prices are too high. Perhaps because of the popularity, or because of the volume. Even at work I have one volume lying around, someone left it, sometimes I read it in my free time.
Excellent bibliography. Thanks for sharing. Have a nice weekend
I still have both of these. Mathematical handbook and higher Mathematical handbook. Both are fantastic
Vygodsky wrote one of the best books on calculus, Foundations of Infinitesimal Calculus. Who wants to understand calculus, I recommend his book.
Thanks for recommendations. I think we should ask math sorcerer for a review
Internet archive
Is that like smooth infinitesimal analysis? Idk if I’d recommend that as a first calc book
@@64MilestotheGallon No, the author simply decided to title the book that way.
Can you provide a link to pdf, I can't find it online
I have an Italian translation of this book, bought at the beginning of the 90s. One of my favorites, for the simple presentation of all the topics.
The publishing house "Mir" published a colossal amount of scientific literature... and translated a huge number of foreign scientists, including the USA... if you read in Russian you would be amazed what books on mathematics, physics and other natural sciences were published in the USSR, there were even books on mathematics for schoolchildren in the form of stories and novels. Feynman's lectures on physics were published in huge editions... and Vygotsky was a Soviet mathematician, author of many textbooks on mathematicians))
i click on these videos for the book smelling
Love your content ^^
I have this book ( plus a few more ), given to me by my dad, who was a mathematician. Been having this since the last 50 years. I still refer to this sometimes. I plotted some of the curves as per the last chapter using geogebra and the results were spectacular. One other use I found is that after the curve was plotted, you can feed in the scatter values to a Machine Learning program and train the system to see if they can recreate the curves. Of course you will get an algebraic power series expansion that closely models these curves but the curves themselves are remarkable. The chapter itself is called "Some remarkable curves" beginning on page 756... Never seen those curves in any other single book... By the way, the book was priced at Rs 12/- , about 20 cents at today's exchange rate !!
Fucking communism !!!!!! I love it
Why @@lexolexoh
Looks awesome and didn't Mir publisher's also published that cool physics book
It would be very interesting to see and read. I left mathematics years ago to use applied math in business. I am currently reading a biography of von Neumann and it brings back my early educational journey
This is really an extremly cool book.
I have a similar book bought in 1977: "A Guide Book to Mathematics" by Bronshtein and Semendyayev, published in 1973 (783 pages, translated from Russian to English). It includes lots of fundamental formulas, tables, graphs, and methods. I often consult it just for pleasure
Me too
@@harryedwardlawrence598 Nice 😀
I have two editions..first and second
In University Physics we used to use Mir books in Chicago. They are excellent.
Adding to my library thank you for the recommendation the book is very expensive so if you can find an online version treasure it !!!
Handbook of Mathematics by Bronstein is a really great handbook. Used it throughout undergrad and grad school
When I was a student, Mir books were much more affordable than most western manuals, and always very good. I have many wonderful physics and mathematics books from Mir, in portuguese, english, spanish and french. They also published many books covering advanced scientific topics targeting a general audience. "Sur la Physique et l'Astrophysique" (V. Ginzburg), "Idées Folles" (I. Radounskaia), "L'Atome de Aà Z" (K. Gladkov), "Au carrefour des Infinis" (E.Parnov), "Au Pays des Quanta" (L. Ponomarev), "Physique Nucléaire Recreative" (C. Moukhine) were a crucial part of my early discovery of particle physics and astrophysics, in high school. Later, I tried to collect all the volumes of the wonderful series "Theoretical Physics" by Landau and Lifschitz. My edition of Higher Algebra by A. Kurosh lists the following other books (besides Vygodsky's): Differential and Integral Calculs (N. Piskunov), Problems in Mathematical Analysis (Ed. B. Demidovich), Theory of functions of a Complex Variable (Sveshnikov and Tikhonov), Problems in the Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (Volkovysky, Lunts, Aramanovich), Lectures in higher Mathematics (A. Myskis), Problems in Higher Algebra (Faddeev, Sominsky).
I have few of tge books that you mentioned but in paperback edituon
The dimensions of that volume make sense. A handbook should fit in the palm of your hand.
Mir texts were invaluable for our A-Level Math course in the 1970s in Belfast ,they were the books our school could just about afford and few could understand.
A lot of great physics and math texts came out of the USSR: grad students in the US were regularly using Landau and Lifshitz's "Course of Theoretical Physics" texts in the 1990s, and Gradshteyn and Ryzhik's "Table of Integrals, Series, and Products" was the integral table of last resort in the days before everyone was using computer algebra systems for the purpose. If you couldn't find your integral in there you probably couldn't find it anywhere.
Landau - Lev Davidovich Landau - Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Very interesting… Thanks for sharing!
Mir publishers Moscow. Brings back childhood memories. Some fantastic books i read on physics in school days.
"Handbook" derives from having something at hand when looking for information. Most important is the index when retrieving information as you won't want to read the complete book.
I got this book in 1987 when I was in my BSc. I still have it as one of my prized collections. I felt glad recently when I saw my son referring to this book and taking notes.
Mir Publishing was also famous in USSR for their high quality sci-fi translations.
Can you please suggest a good book for mathematical modelling in biology (which contains bifurcation topic in detail)
Piskunov and Demidovitch books are also excellent. Great suggestion !!!!
Fact is, however beatiful this book is, there are similar western books. Great video, ss always!
Will you ever cover an AOPS book? I am enjoying their Intermediate Algebra book in that series, and I think you would, too.
Great book and great video ❤
Thank you for the great book
Nice vídeo, congrates from Brazil!!!!
I just got a pdf copy from the internet archive and gave them a donation. Thank you so much for sharing!
We always love the books.
5:14 Kind of surprised you butchered his name there 😅
Very nice book. The MIR edition is old and very rare now. Take good care of this book it's a gem!
Priceless, incomparable, unrivaled.
Love the camera work.
One of my favorite math books.
5:36 Well, my granddad and grandma were engineers, so we had that Handbook of Elementary Mathematics in our home. It's worth more than its weight in gold.
They were published in Italy too...I have the complete course of physics by Landau and Lifschitz, the calculus course by Smirnov, tbe one by Piskuniv, and many other on higher mathematics and physics...
This is actually the book that changed my life! My grandfather had this book (the original edition though) in his personal library, and when I found it as a child, I was totally fascinated. All this high-level math looked like arcane magic to me, and I was so curious to decypher it that I started my math journey, reading other books (we also had a Handbook of Elementary Mathematics by the same Vygodsky), and then eventually in high school I could understand everything written in this book
I used this book in the 1970's and also its companion book, handbook of physics. They are comprehensive and writen in a smart way. I still use them as reference books. I am not sure if they can be purchased anymore.
I love mathematics and have never pursued any degree with as much devotion and passion as my Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. I also enjoy reading books on math and physics.
❤❤❤❤❤ Ithink you have both Elementary Mathematics and Higher Mayhematics handbooks
I have both volumes in original ❤
I also have this book. Actually I was trying to find any Handbook which covers the main formula or theory (just statement and corollary) of Higher Mathematics. But I couldn't. Then one day in a book fair I saw it and purchased. The thing is the book i bought is not hardcover and the binding is also very poor. But I get it in very low price, may be in below Rs 200/-..... But one thing is for sure. This is really a good book with my budget.
This is fascinating.
Great video!
Interesting stuff!
I ahd this and another volume (of Vygodsky) during my school days. There were a lot of excellent books from Mir Publishers
Zorich's "Mathematical Analysis" is also popular in Russia. You can find translations, too.
At 5:11 under SOME REMARKABLE CURVES item 505, "Leaf of Descartes" is pronounced like 'daycart', and not 'dezzcarr'. Descartes was a seminal figure in philosophy, science, and mathematics. He was known (in mathematics) for his work in Analytic Geometry (Cartesian Coordinates -- look up his work: "La Geometrie"), and greatly influenced the young Issac Newton.
I bought that book 34 years ago. I still have it in storage somewhere.
Did you do a review of handbook of analysis and foundation by Eric Schechter already? I'd like to know what you think about it.
You is really good in mathematics
Really nice good. Will you show us all your rare books?
But nostalgic to see the book after 30 years. I had this or it's elementary book in year 10-12
Thanks for sharing :)
All books from Mir publishers are a hidden gem 💎
I love that publisher I use the courses of higher mathematics from the same publisher
There was a big fire in 2012 in which "MIR" building was destroyed after which they ceased to exist :(. They were nearly bankrupt several years before that.
I have this book! It really is a great quick reference book.
This is really cool! Do you know of a similar type of book that's more modern and accessible?
I had a copy of this book when I was in college some 40 years ago. Books from the soviet union were very cheap in India those days. I also had a copy of the elementary handbook. Don't remember what I did with those books.
Geweldig om deze boeken te lezen. Ieder land heeft ze wel..de wiskundeboeken zoals het hoort te zijn.
I had many MIR physics books in physics and math when I was undergraduate (and still have most of them). They were actually quite cheap! These were French versions.
I had this one long time ago.
Fascinating review. (BTW, the device the author was holding is a compass, not a protractor.)
I've recently started collecting very good 'old' books especially in the areas of economics, mathematics and physics and I am very fond of the Soviet era books. Though this channel is about mathematics I was wondering if viewers might be familiar with the great economics/econometrics textbooks by the Soviets as well. Did MIR publishers print economics books too? Or there were other english language publishers for the social sciences? Thanks 🙏🏽
i have one of these at home. They Belong to my dad who gave them to me. He has other books from the same publisher as well btw.
I have a cool book from MIR Publishers, called 'Exercises in Higher Mathematics' in two volumes. The dust jacket isn't in great shape, but the book itself is very nice.
my father still has one si ce his graduation days ❤❤
Do you have any advice on learning mathematical modelling of (physical/engineering) systems and such?
Look up Professors Steven Brunton and Nathanial Kutz. They have a great textbook, "Data-Driven Science and Engineering (2nd Edition)." Brunton also creates excellent KZhead videos. Their approach to modeling is state-of-the-art. Also, ask ChatGPT the same question. Provide it with some description of your mathematical background & ambitions to get customized advice.