PlanetMath Outline Series Preview
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This might go someplace on the Books project roadmap, see #37.
The outline of outlines is as follows:
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus, Second Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of College Algebra, Second Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of College Mathematics, Revised Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Elementary Algebra, Second Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Geometry, Second Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, Revised Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Probability and Statistics, Revised Edition
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Programming with Java
- Schaum's Easy Outline of Statistics, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Abstract Algebra
- Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus, Third Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists
- Schaum's Outline of Astronomy
- Schaum's Outline of Basic Business Mathematics, 2ed
- Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics for Electricity and Electronics
- Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics with Applications to Science and Technology, 2ed
- Schaum's Outline of Beginning Calculus
- Schaum's Outline of Beginning Finite Mathematics
- Schaum's Outline of Beginning Statistics, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting, Fourth Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Calculus, 6th Edition
- Schaum's Outline of College Algebra, Third Edition
- Schaum's Outline of College Mathematics, Fourth Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture
- Schaum's Outline of Computer Networking
- Schaum's Outline of Data Structures with Java, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, 3rd edition
- Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Electronic Devices and Circuits, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Elements of Statistics I: Descriptive Statistics and Probability
- Schaum's Outline of Essential Computer Mathematics
- Schaum's Outline of Financial Management, Third Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases
- Schaum's Outline of Geometry, 5th Edition
- Schaum's Outline of HTML
- Schaum's Outline of Immunology
- Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Psychology
- Schaum's Outline of Introductory Surveying
- Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics
- Schaum's Outline of Logic, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 4th Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Liberal Arts Majors
- Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Nurses
- Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Physics Students
- Schaum's Outline of Mathematics of Finance, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Matrix Operations
- Schaum's Outline of Operating Systems
- Schaum's Outline of Partial Differential Equations
- Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Precalculus, 3rd Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I, Fifth Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 4th Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Probability, Second Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++
- Schaum's Outline of Programming with Java
- Schaum's Outline of Review of Elementary Mathematics, 2nd Edition
- Schaum's Outline of Software Engineering
- Schaum's Outline of Statistics
- Schaum's Outline of Statistics for Engineers
- Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics With Chemical Applications
- Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic
- Schaum's Outline of XML
I didn't see "Schaum's Outline of Calculus of Finite Differences and Difference Equations" in the list above, so perhaps the current offerings on their website don't match the full back catalog.
As it so happens, that volume is one which I am quite
familiar with as I studied it in the eighth grade when I
was teaching myself calculus. I picked it up at a local
used bookstore, where I also found other math books.
I would be quite happy if PM could wind up serving a
similar role to that bookstore for eighth graders who
are interested in learning math.
As a rough measure of feature parity, let us consider
each section as equivalent to an encyclopaedia
entry. That particular value has 97 sections and 877
problems, 420 of which come with full solutions.
Assuming all the books are of roughly the same size,
that comes out to something like 6000 encyclopaedia
entries and 60000 problems with 20000 solutions. The
number of entries is something like half the number we
currently have; however, I think we would have to add
a few thousand entries to be really comparable, since
our coverage in most areas is spotty.
The quickest way to achieve this goal would be by
the books project since we can enter old textbooks which
cover the same material and have problems. In order
to get the solutions to the problems there in a reasonable
time, we will need to get to the point where we have 60
solutions per day coming in.
(* 97 65) ;=> 6305
(* 877 65) ;=> 57005
(* 420 65) ;=> 27300
If we could recycle the encyclopedia, we'd be OK! -- we'd want to add about 5 problems per (current) encyclopedia article. That sounds like a lot of work, but an interesting project nonetheless.