{"id":149,"date":"2016-08-03T23:25:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/bookends\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-08-03T23:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:25:27","slug":"books-that-have-left-their-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/amathematicalword\/2016\/08\/03\/books-that-have-left-their-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Books that have left their mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below are the noteworthy books suggested in comments to my last post:\u00a0 “Books with Longevity”.\u00a0 (I could not find good photos of Grothendieck’s EGA and SGA, published by publications IHES<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks for sharing them!<\/p>\n

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The intention of any worthy math book is to communicate a collective understanding of a subject by experts to potential future practitioners, but is it just me, or is there sometimes something more personal that happens between author and reader?\u00a0 Some books seem to “talk” to you.\u00a0 They can make you smile for the beauty that they reveal (examples for me are David Mumford’s Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface<\/em>, or Emil Artin’s Galois Theory<\/em>), or they can egg you on with challenging problems leading you to deeper understanding (Attiyah and MacDonald’s Introduction to Commutative Algebra<\/em> comes to mind).<\/p>\n

On a more pragmatic level, as one comment pointed out,\u00a0 it is also important for books to be useful for teaching.\u00a0 That will be a topic for a future post.<\/p>\n

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Below are the noteworthy books suggested in comments to my last post:\u00a0 “Books with Longevity”.\u00a0 (I could not find good photos of Grothendieck’s EGA and SGA, published by publications IHES)\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks for sharing them! \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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