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PlanetMath Outline Series Preview

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holtzermann17 commented

This might go someplace on the Books project roadmap, see #37.

The outline of outlines is as follows:

  1. Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus, Second Edition
  2. Schaum's Easy Outline of College Algebra, Second Edition
  3. Schaum's Easy Outline of College Mathematics, Revised Edition
  4. Schaum's Easy Outline of Elementary Algebra, Second Edition
  5. Schaum's Easy Outline of Geometry, Second Edition
  6. Schaum's Easy Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, Revised Edition
  7. Schaum's Easy Outline of Probability and Statistics, Revised Edition
  8. Schaum's Easy Outline of Programming with Java
  9. Schaum's Easy Outline of Statistics, Second Edition
  10. Schaum's Outline of Abstract Algebra
  11. Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus, Third Edition
  12. Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists
  13. Schaum's Outline of Astronomy
  14. Schaum's Outline of Basic Business Mathematics, 2ed
  15. Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity, Second Edition
  16. Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics for Electricity and Electronics
  17. Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics with Applications to Science and Technology, 2ed
  18. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Calculus
  19. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Finite Mathematics
  20. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Statistics, Second Edition
  21. Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting, Fourth Edition
  22. Schaum's Outline of Calculus, 6th Edition
  23. Schaum's Outline of College Algebra, Third Edition
  24. Schaum's Outline of College Mathematics, Fourth Edition
  25. Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture
  26. Schaum's Outline of Computer Networking
  27. Schaum's Outline of Data Structures with Java, Second Edition
  28. Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, 3rd edition
  29. Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition
  30. Schaum's Outline of Electronic Devices and Circuits, Second Edition
  31. Schaum's Outline of Elements of Statistics I: Descriptive Statistics and Probability
  32. Schaum's Outline of Essential Computer Mathematics
  33. Schaum's Outline of Financial Management, Third Edition
  34. Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases
  35. Schaum's Outline of Geometry, 5th Edition
  36. Schaum's Outline of HTML
  37. Schaum's Outline of Immunology
  38. Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra, Second Edition
  39. Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Probability and Statistics
  40. Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Psychology
  41. Schaum's Outline of Introductory Surveying
  42. Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics
  43. Schaum's Outline of Logic, Second Edition
  44. Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 4th Edition
  45. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Liberal Arts Majors
  46. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Nurses
  47. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Physics Students
  48. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics of Finance, Second Edition
  49. Schaum's Outline of Matrix Operations
  50. Schaum's Outline of Operating Systems
  51. Schaum's Outline of Partial Differential Equations
  52. Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science, Second Edition
  53. Schaum's Outline of Precalculus, 3rd Edition
  54. Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I, Fifth Edition
  55. Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 4th Edition
  56. Schaum's Outline of Probability, Second Edition
  57. Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++
  58. Schaum's Outline of Programming with Java
  59. Schaum's Outline of Review of Elementary Mathematics, 2nd Edition
  60. Schaum's Outline of Software Engineering
  61. Schaum's Outline of Statistics
  62. Schaum's Outline of Statistics for Engineers
  63. Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics With Chemical Applications
  64. Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic
  65. Schaum's Outline of XML
holtzermann17 commented

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.

rspuzio commented

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.

holtzermann17 commented 
(* 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.