Let's hope this trip to Half Priced Books will give me what I want/need. I'm looking for that Topology book I posted about a long time ago. The only problem? Barnes and Nobles carries it, but it's not in stock. I thought I'd be able to get that book in my hands faster, but I can't.
Last night I buckled down and bought it online, only to find out that the Barnes and Nobles site is mean and "ships 1-2 days" means that that's when they are shipping it not when you will receive it.
So I might be in trouble, because I haven't tried any of the proofs yet and I said I would. What's a mathematician to do?
I'm moving in on Monday and will, very likely, either bump into the professor then or Tuesday, we start classes on Wednesday which means I'm doomed. This has spurred trips to Half Priced Books, which have also unsettled me.
The first one we went to has really bad organization. When did Topology become Trigonometry? Where's the geometry section? What are these people thinking? The only sections they do have are "General Math", "Trigonometry", "Linear Algebra" and I think that was about it. They should have more books and more sections, but I guess that's what you get when the only topology book there (there were like 5 but this is the only one I remember) is Differential Topology and that's why they put it on the bottom shelf of Trigonometry, right next to the Calculus section (there was also a "Calculus" section, btw). I guess that's what the author gets by putting differential in the title of their text, right? Misplacement in book stores which becomes confusing to those who care about math.
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The only way that would work is if you started an internet store. Which you could do, I guess. You can start out by selling books on ebay and later on make your own site.
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