A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page.
As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage that reflects the fact that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's Physics is called a book. In an unrestricted sense, a book is the compositional whole of which such sections, whether called books or chapters or parts, are parts.
The intellectual content in a physical book need not be a composition, nor even be called a book. Books can consist only of drawings, engravings or photographs, crossword puzzles or cut-out dolls. In a physical book, the pages can be left blank or can feature an abstract set of lines to support entries, such as in an account book, an appointment book, an autograph book, a notebook, a diary or a sketchbook. Some physical books are made with pages thick and sturdy enough to support other physical objects, like a scrapbook or photograph album. Books may be distributed in electronic form as ebooks and other formats.
Although in ordinary academic parlance a monograph is understood to be a specialist academic work, rather than a reference work on a scholarly subject, in library and information science monograph denotes more broadly any non-serial publication complete in one volume (book) or a finite number of volumes (even a novel like Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time), in contrast to serial publications like a magazine, journal or newspaper. An avid reader or collector of books is a bibliophile or colloquially, "bookworm". A place where books are traded is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also sold elsewhere and can be borrowed from libraries. Google has estimated that by 2010, approximately 130,000,000 titles had been published. In some wealthier nations, the sale of printed books has decreased because of the increased usage of ebooks.
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For those looking for an undergraduate introduction to module theory there is not a great deal of choice regarding textbooks, but two possible texts are as follows:
"A First Course in Module Theory" by M.E. Keating of Imperial College, London [Publisher: Imperial College Press, 1998]
and...
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I'm in the early stage of my ph.d program in electrical engineering and I have realized I need to know more math (I'm in circuits).
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I teach AP Physics and general physics at a small independent school. One of my colleagues asked me if I could recommend a book on relativity for the son of a friend, who is a bright 11th grade student. Sadly, I have not read many books in the popular science...
Between Beer and Hibbeler, which is the better book? Are there any other books beside those two that are any good?
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I would to know if anyone knows any books in mathematics or physics at any level :
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-Any book that's not very known but which you regard as useful ?
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I am teaching myself what could be categorized as Calculus 1, using Adams' "Calculus: A Complete Course" along with "Schaum's 3000...
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Properly introducing myself into dark matter so in the quest for book suggestions from those of you who are into the topic.
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I'm here asking you guys if you know any books relevant to writing a paper on the subject of "The Development of Newton's mechanistic Universe - Principia (1687)." It's for a history class, so...
Recently me and my friends started undergraduate courses following our interests(mostly engineering, science and maths).
can anyone suggest some great books for reference and to use as guides for the respective courses?
(like electronics and communication engineering :
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I'm doing an undergraduate course in engineering 1st sem. I have physics which contains cumbersome amount of vector calculus operations. Although I have cleared my concepts I require a lot of practice to increase agility in vector calculus. I demand thus a good practice book or set of problems...
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I started reading General Relativity but concepts such as Lorentz transformations, rotations, tensors etc. are, at least in my opinion, poorly explained. Or perhaps the authors assume that the readers are already familiar with such maths?
At any rate, I would very much like to read...
Hi everyone, I'm currently looking for a book on ways to sketch curves, especially for the more unusual kinds of curves, something that teaches things like hyperbolic curves, x^x, sigmoid functions and so on. These are what I have not encountered in my learning very often, so I'm interested to...
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I'm taking a break from school this semester to work and pursue interests that I have let fall to the way-side due to studies. I'm an EE major but physics is sort of a "hobby" that I enjoy learning past what is required for my classes. I would like to take a QM course next year some...
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I am following Shigley's Mechanical engineering design as a textbook for my course of machine design.But i would be very thankful if anyone gives me some references books of machine design in pdf format containing more and more problems.It will be helpful also if you can provide any...
I've tried to learn calculus many times from many books,I've come to the conclusion that there is no ideal book on this subject.
I've read Spivak's book,and greatly enjoyed its problems but I felt unstatisfied by the explanations and the illustration were very poor ,and the only chapter on...
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I'm a civil engineering (bachelor) student, and I was fascinated by the "hydraulics" course.
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I'm entering graduate school this fall and was looking to improve my computational physics knowledge. I have experience with MATLAB, Python, Java, and some C.
My question is which resources do you think are the best for learning the methods required for computational quantum...
Hi fellas, I have taken white dwarf stars as my undergrad thesis choice, so I need some suggestion on good books on dwarf. please suggest me books for both reading and for some mathematical derivations regarding the white dwarf
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I'm very tempted to learn more about physics but the problem occurs when I'm about to choose from two books, one regarding physics and the other maths only. What exactly should I do in order to become good at physics?
Should I go through the maths book (which I think is...
I'm in the middle of Kolmogorov's little 70 page probability book and it's phenomenal so far, clearest I've ever read on the subject. Also in the middle of Dirac's little General Relativity book, again phenomenal. Dip into Milnor's Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint every now and again...
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I am interested to learn tensor calculus but I can't find a good book that provide rigorous treatment to tensor calculus if anyone could recommend me to one I would be very pleased.
In PA, the libraries' reading program is about science. I read the book, "Life as we do not know it" and want a book explaining nanotechnology and a book about the mapped genome. Since I have no clue where to begin, I hope you could suggest a book in each category.
I took advanced biology...
I've been doing some light reading on Geometric Graph Theory, and it seem interesting to me. However, at the moment I've only managed to find a few Wikipedia articles and one .PDF of lecture notes.
I'm looking for something which is more complete, such as a book or a website for example...
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I am new here, not sure if it's right place to post, but my girlfriend is finishing high school next year, she is interested in neuro-science as an undergraduate full-time course in the UK or Germany, I was wondering if you guys have any english textbooks you recommend her having a...
I have a shoe box full of old match books from bars and casinos etc. I store them in a closet. It just dawned on my that it might not be an ideal storing situation. Is there any danger them like this? Should I put them in a metal box and in a garage? Could them spontaneously light and burn my...
Could anyone recommend an up-to-date and not too advanced book or online notes on applied quantum mechanics or quantum technology? Most of my books are quite old and I need to have a basic understanding of the subject for a work experience project in six weeks time.
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hi I'm a math undergraduate and looking for books about fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. introductory to intermediate level. would prefer books with lots of examples and include good amount of graphs and diagrams. thanks!
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I was wondering how much importance there is in studying pure math, for the budding theoretical physicist? mathematical physicist?
Also I was wondering whether a mathematical physicist would work more on mathematical methods that physicists can use or do work like Einstein...
Hi awesome Physicsforum members, I’m looking for a good introdoctury book for learning Statistics (self-study) which succeeds in explaining the concepts very clearly .
What I’m looking for in a statistics book
My goal with the book is not to achieve some abstract mathematical skills, but...
Can someone provide me with a quasi-mathematical introductory text to quantum field theory ? Ideally, a book that's somewhere between popular science and an introductory freshman physics text.
I have a strong background in calculus, having just completed a one-semester equivalent reading of...
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I am going to begin studying physics in Europe in autumn. I know that I will learn a lot but I want to be really good and learn in the most efficient way. In order to achieve this I will have to...
What can I do to learn modern mathematics?
Calculus and discrete mathematics were made over a hundred years ago. They are ancient. So what books do I need to read to learn modern mathematics?
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I'm a physics bachelor and amateur oboist. I started a formal education in a conservatory, but I left it a few years ago and I've just been attending oboe classes.
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