Now What Do I Do?

by rrusczyk, Mar 28, 2008, 8:08 PM

We're sending the Intermediate Algebra book to the printer today. After months of spending half the work week, many evenings, and most weekends on it, I have no idea what to do with myself now. . .

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Intermediate Geo of course.

by perfect628, Mar 28, 2008, 8:17 PM

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Wow! I can't wait until it comes out!
Congratulations!

by xpmath, Mar 28, 2008, 8:17 PM

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Yay!!! Please make a geo book as perfect said. I really need one of those

by #H34N1, Mar 28, 2008, 8:18 PM

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Ignore the posts above, take a break first.

...And buy an Xbox 360, with LIVE and Halo 3/Call of Duty 4.

by n0vad3m0n, Mar 28, 2008, 8:38 PM

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hehe do both take a break and then write Inter geo ...

(or just make a large party ,can't wait to see Inter Algebra)

by Wichking, Mar 28, 2008, 8:49 PM

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If you are going to do what 7h3 is saying, Crysis is more satisfying

by #H34N1, Mar 28, 2008, 9:55 PM

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For a future project, I've always thought it would be nice if someone wrote a series of very short books (like 20-30 pages), each one focusing on a small topic or going through the derivation of some theorem. What I'm imagining here is something easy to read with a few problems in it that aims primarily to develop intuition for a subject. It would just be something convenient to look at for a week or two as casual reading.

by probability1.01, Mar 28, 2008, 10:54 PM

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Have you ever thought of taking the Olympiad Geometry Lectures and putting them into a book? I still find myself using ideas from those. (In particular, I solved one IMO problem in say 15 mins due to remembering a construction: given an angle and a point in the angle, construct a segment with endpoints on the rays of the angle whose midpoint is that given point).

by Altheman, Mar 28, 2008, 11:15 PM

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You know what you should do?
Compile the problems in Trig class into a nice book.
Then sell it.

by Smartguy, Mar 28, 2008, 11:35 PM

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Having the things you do in classes and making them into books (for the contest classes obviosly, seeing as you're already making or have books for the othe classes) would be nice.

by xpmath, Mar 29, 2008, 12:11 AM

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Thank you SO much for writing this!
Waiting eagerly...

by IntrepidMath, Mar 29, 2008, 12:31 AM

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The trig book will be next (for me), then a more advanced geometry book. (That said, there will be plenty of geometry in the trig book, including some of the stuff in the Olympiad geometry course (complex number and vector geometry, also with trig in geometry).

probability: The internet might be a better distribution medium for items that are that short. Is what you're suggesting basically like some of Titu's books, cut into pieces? Essentially 3-4 of these types of books stapled together, and you get Math Olympiad Challenges. (We may be producing similar 'small' books some day for younger students, but we haven't worked out those details.)

Maybe Kindle will actually succeed to the point that it would make sense to produce items that brief for anything besides free distribution on the internet (or maybe it would be a nice Community project, like the PEN Project, to develop these things at the higher levels). Food for thought at the very least.

by rrusczyk, Mar 29, 2008, 1:20 AM

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Congratulations!

by Boy Soprano II, Mar 29, 2008, 2:29 AM

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When will the book be for sale in the store?

by emannes, Mar 29, 2008, 2:37 AM

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He can't buy a x360. He lives somewhere where they don't get cable so it would be pointless.

by Valentin Vornicu, Mar 29, 2008, 5:54 AM

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What?! That's absurd!

Either way, take some time to relax.

by n0vad3m0n, Mar 29, 2008, 1:17 PM

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Ignore the posts above, take a break first.

...And buy an Xbox 360, with LIVE and Halo 3/Call of Duty 4.

Yeah, but get a Wii and Super Smash Brothers Brawl, lol.

Actually, if AoPS is going to start to write another book, I'd rather see Intermed NT first. Or is Mr. Crawford writing it?

by Nerd_of_the_Ages, Mar 29, 2008, 4:25 PM

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I thought there was no Olympiad Geometry Course anymore?

by Aneo., Mar 29, 2008, 8:37 PM

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I'd like to see a book purely on inequalities, but that's just me.

by Temperal, Mar 29, 2008, 10:20 PM

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Inequalities?

AoPS vol 2 had a nice section that I enjoyed reading through about inequalities. It might be nice to include some of the inequalities from the Olympiad level in Temperal's imaginary book.

Or maybe a proof book would be nice. Not just a collection of awesome proofs, but actually teaching you how to think outside the box to prove something.

by n0vad3m0n, Mar 29, 2008, 10:30 PM