You can start bidding on the books here, more books to come: www.ebay.com/usr/themathsorcerer (books will take a bit to show up, the store is new) Here are the individual books so far www.ebay.com/itm/186595817049 www.ebay.com/itm/186594770160 www.ebay.com/itm/186594342687 www.ebay.com/itm/186594329024 www.ebay.com/itm/186594174889 www.ebay.com/itm/186594233253 www.ebay.com/itm/186594152958 www.ebay.com/itm/186594120008 www.ebay.com/itm/186594021290 www.ebay.com/itm/186593685742 www.ebay.com/itm/186593595689 www.ebay.com/itm/186593524220 www.ebay.com/itm/186593020740 www.ebay.com/itm/186592890508 www.ebay.com/itm/186592838060 www.ebay.com/itm/186592777593 www.ebay.com/itm/186592685980 www.ebay.com/itm/186592616192 www.ebay.com/itm/186592503758 www.ebay.com/itm/186592458526 www.ebay.com/itm/186592154148 www.ebay.com/itm/186592170183 www.ebay.com/itm/186592175237 www.ebay.com/itm/186592179580 www.ebay.com/itm/186592182775 www.ebay.com/itm/186592433204
No statistics available on how many Mathematicians are fleeing Russia, Ukraine, other drafts, wars, etc. Likewise difficult to find records of how many German mathematicians would have dodged draft by fleeing to Switzerland during WWs in the last century…
As someone who has moved, books are one of the HARDEST things to move. They are heavy, they take up a lot of space, and you don't want to part with them because they are expensive/you have sentimental value with them.
This is insane man. You’re the reason I’m going back to Seminole state college man. You have no idea just how much a profound coincidence it is in my life that you taught there. I was a trucker for about 5 years and then while I was on the road, thousands of miles from home, I found your channel and completed differential equations for fun. You led me down the rabbit hole to pursuing electrical engineering. And I’ve lived near Seminole state my entire life
@@aeromodeller1 Yes, you are correct. My statement was meant to be a general statement, meaning, accept only bids above a certain amount larger than otherwise it would have been or, like I myself, sell instead of having people bid. For there books TMS is selling, auction is definitely best.
As a fellow collector of maths & science books, I totally relate to this problem. 12 years ago, my basement was flooded & I lost a ton of books I had collected for decades but didn’t have space for upstairs. I have since vowed to only buy electronic books from then on. Today, virtual my book collection follows me everywhere in my iPhone, iPad, computers & backed up in the cloud. I can travel light & moving is no longer a huge headache. Yes, I do miss the tactile experience & the smell of real paper books, but I cannot deny the improvements in freedom & convenience. Godspeed & safe travels, Math Sorcerer. 🧙♂🤓📚🔬
I highly relate to this!!!! I do miss the books but I remember that maybe witches or wizards/sorcerers etc would probably go bonkers with the tech we have now!
Ever since I took your class when I was in college you have been a huge inspiration. I wish you luck in your future endeavors and I love to see you thrive!
Yeah but he actually practices his craft, not just wastes his money buying just to be buying only to do nothing with them. Now That’s a sign of mental illness, which is the moniker of a hoarder.
Hey math sorcerer, you can transform them into pdf, (if there's no already a pdf available to download from google), and store them in your laptop or phone, at least you won't lose them, you would still have a pdf version of them, i hope you do that
I got rid of half of my books 27 years ago when I moved from my father's house and I still regret it. I managed to replace them during the past years but could not find two, which makes me very sad. I will not do it again, my books are my daughters. Good luck with your new future.
I can understand this feeling. I had to give away many books as I moved to a smaller house less than a year ago. And I still think of at least one of them which I had used for studies.
I am an older person, and I got rid of probably, 2,500 books a few years ago. Thousands of dollars. I went from an entire library room full of double shelved books to one 6 shelf billy bookcase and one three shelf billy bookcase. I thought it would be so difficult! Mine went to the local library book sale. Probably eight or nine pickup truck loads later, I was done. What a weight off my shoulders! Now I have a one in-one out policy. You can’t take it with you. I don’t need to have them just to have them, collecting dust. It has been so freeing.
I recently moved and had stacks upon stacks of boxes bursting with math books, and I know it would total to a minute portion of your collection. Culling your collection to a more manageable load to travel with is a significant amount of work, so awesome you're willing to do it to give us a chance to enjoy some of the books from your collection! Really hope I'll be able to pick up a book or two from your store, thank you for all of your hard work and fantastic mathematics content - good luck and I'm excited to see the new videos throughout your travels!
You are da best Math Sorcerer, safe travels! Walk the Earth! I hope you get as much money as possible for your books. You continue to be a positive influence on so many people, rock on!
, thank you soo much for the marvelous content. I need your help in finding a good book about calculus and probability. I am doing neuroscience research and I know I need a good understanding about calculus and probability. my current knowledge limited (I studied undergrad level of calculus and almost zero probability)
I would get any and all books by Sheldon Ross. He has several on probability, get all the cheap ones:) They all use calculus at some point and include tons of examples. For Calculus I would just use a regular Calculus book. Something like Stewart's Calculus or Larson's Calculus. Thank you:)
A lesson I learned many years ago is to avoid wasting time, energy, and money collecting things. They'll eventually become a burden or an albatross around one's neck. Less things means more flexibility and an overall fulfilling life. - Less is more
quite true....a errant like me, should take that advice, everything starts as a back up, and then when I notice, develop love and caring and already have a lot and become a hoarder
Math Sorcerer, you have been a huge inspiration for me and I have a suggestion. Please take your time on this up and coming collection series. Even though i'm not yet as a genius in Mathematics as you, I still for whatever reason get excited watching your videos/shorts on an obscure Math book, especially if that book covers a super advanced math topic iv'e ever even heard of. Gives me the same feeling people feel watching an episode of their favorite anime, when a new character appears, one with new dope powers and a cool backstory. I'm only a senior in highschool and your videos stimulate my excitement for math. Thankyou for what you do man. ❤
Fleeing means running away from war or dictator or system and coming back after situation clears (maybe after decades) usually or atleast as I understand. Forgot language after studying maths
I am hoping the math sorcerer will go on an archivist style journey where he tours all libraries around the world and scans as many of the books as he can. What a legendary fella
Have you considered options like 1. Renting some storage unit to stash them away while you are travelling? I believe such services must be common and affordable in the US given that a large part of the population are not permanent home owners. 2. Lending them to some local library with the agreement that you still reserve full ownership of them and can take them back when you wish? Apart from some minor kerfuffle in adding/removing them from the catalog (and perhaps some legal formalities), this should be a win-win proposition for the library. 3. Same as (2) above, but distribute among friends/colleagues/students instead of a library? Admittedly not very practical overall, but perhaps may work for a small fraction of your collection that you neither want to carry around nor part ways with.
Thank you for your videos. I learned a lot from you: not just math, but also a positive attitude towards learning and life. Have a safe trip and look forward to your new videos.
Just finished the first assignment of the calculus 2 course and I'm living ny best life with that honestly thank you for making maths accessibile you are a great teacher
Selling the items you love is not easy. As an extremely experienced eBay seller, I am sure many of them will sell for more than a penny. Also put a little extra in the shipping cost to cover eBay fees on shipping cost. this will allow you not to lose money. in the continental US you can ship a 2 lb book media mail for $5.50 or so. I would charge $7 shipping to cover ebay fees and to ensure you do not lose money.
Nobody would buy a $1 book with $7 shipping. The other option is putting it to garbage, which he wants to avoid emotionally. So maybe he is willing to pay something (to loose money) to get the books to somebody who likes them.
I feel you, brother. And I feel your pain. Books are like little treasure troves of knowledge - so, just know they’ll be going to a good place - to carry with them knowledge into another person.
You continue to be a real inspiration to me! Watching your videos got me studying again (just a hobbyist and a high school math teacher) - working my way through John Lee Introduction to Smooth Manifolds.
Wow... As a book lover myself, I can relate to your pain. It feels so good when one wants to deep dive on a subject (or refresh) then one's got a good reference book handy! I wish you all the best in you new endeavors and many thanks for passionately sharing your appreciation and love for math and science books!
My friend Ryan of over 24 years like you. His whole life is academics, no family, no marriage, and no ties that bind. I knew he was a free spirit when we meet. Wish you the best Sorcerer on your travel and research.
Thank you for mentioning how attaching a story to a book acquisition is in fact an actual activity/hobby lol. Seeing the world teaching math and visiting libraries is certainly the dream. Best of luck to you, and safe travels! Looking forward to cool adventure stories \m/
I've had to do that a few times, so I know how tough it is. I first did it after my foreign study abroad ended and I needed to return home. Then again when I moved out of the country. While I did my best to limit my collection to only my most favorite, ultimately I regret loosing a number of those books. (And even the books that I did keep they were so expensive to ship...) Even now my bookshelves are too full. Every few years I need to get rid of some books and it is always so difficult. I guess that is the pain of being a book lover. Best of luck to you.
enjoy your adventure! really enjoy your videos. two "pro tips" for boxing books to ship - use banker boxes (built in handles and trades off shipping excessively heavy boxes and line them with a recyclable plastic bag)
Proud of you, man. I'm giving away most of my books too, but not my math books. Since I've been using a Kindle for a few years now, I thought if I'm not using them, somebody who will use them should have them. There's no point in having books just for decoration.
Congratulations. Your journeys are going to make all that hard work worth it. You gotta be stoked. Math books...okay.. but definitely take your surfboard. I have a feeling your videos are going to be even better than before. Excited to see what you bring to the channel.
Man it's crazy to see how much your channel has grown over the years. When I met you on a certain game years ago, you had just a few thousand subscribers I think? And now you're nearing 1 mil and you're starting a new chapter in life. Really exciting stuff! I hope your collection finds some happy homes.
Hey Math Sorcerer … I just learned about you … Sorry to hear you’re going to have to trim your book collection 😢 … But I’m glad to hear you’ll be visiting university libraries and sharing your math adventures with us 😊 … There’s nothing like the scent of a library!
I moved in October and had to make similar choices. I was able to keep most of them. It's not just the books the it's also the friends you made studying those subjects, the person that recommended the book to you, the person you got the book from, the other significant life events that were going on in your life when you studied that subject, the excitement you felt when you first opened ed, and yes in some cases the history behind them.
Sounds like an interesting adventure. I can see you keeping your books somewhere safe because some are just too valuable to give away. I struggle with a similar issue.
Ni hablar mi estimado, triste por un lado porque sè lo que se siente. Tambièn tengo mi colecciòn de libros de Matemàticas - aunque insignificante comparada con tu colecciòn. Creo que el saber que personas se beneficiaràn es el consuelo. Por otro lado, inicias una nueva etapa en tu vida y por lo que veo es emocianante. Mi estimado Hechicero de Matemàticas, felicidades por tu canal (youtube) y seguimos viendo tus videos, uno aprende mucho. GRACIAS !! DIOS TE BENDIGA SIEMPRE!!
that's why I love digital copies for books, they do not replace the experience of reading a physical book, but you still keep the info and is available if ever needed to consult
I probably have as many books as you, with a high concentration in math, physics, chemistry, and neurosciences. I have purchased these books extremely selectively over the course of my life, not as a collector but as a useful library that I consult at any time I become involved in or have a question on a specific topic or get an intense "brain itch" that I need to scratch. I been doing this throughout my life and I still have books that I have purchased since the 1950's and very seldom have sold or disposed of any. The older books constitute the comprehensive summation of a person's ideas on a subject that he/she has mastered and are conceptually from a different world and mindset than most books of today that are a written on the basis of "publish or perish" I have these books on my shelves not as a show of my learning, but as a testament to my ignorance since if I knew the material they contained I would have no need to have the book.
Ask a university library you can trust, if they would like to keep them while you travel. The other option,you can ask the State library if they want them.
If you decide to vist Pythagoras' birth place, Samos island in Greece, I will be happy to show you around and visit the Math Department in the local University! Take care.
I feel for you. I still have every book that I used as a math student and many of the books I used for the math classes that I taught. Have a wonderful journey!
My brother and I are acquiring rare maths and science books for our former high school in Northern Ghana. So I'll be pitching camp on your ebay page. I wish you the best of all you wish yourself in your new endeavor...
Hans in Luck (Hans im Glück) Hans has been working hard for seven years but wishes to return to see his poor mother. His master pays him his wages which amounts to a lump of gold the size of his head. Hans puts the gold in a handkerchief and starts out on his journey jogging but soon becomes tired. He spots a rider on horseback and seeing the ease at which the horse travels he offers to exchange his lump of gold for the horse. Happy with the exchange, the man gives him the horse and Hans rides off. The horse bolts and Hans gets bucked off, whereupon he meets a shepherd who convinces Hans to trade his horse for a cow. Telling Hans that a cow can provide milk, cheese and butter and is of more leisurely company. Hans takes up on the offer and continues his journey only to find that the cow is dry and not producing any milk as he had been told. Disgruntled with the cow, Hans meets a butcher who gives him a pig for the cow. Thanking the butcher for the pig Hans sets off jogging again, hopeful he has now found an ideal travel companion. Alas, Hans meets a countryman who informs him that the pig's owner is the squire and he is in danger of being arrested for taking the squire's pig. Hans takes the countryman's goose in exchange for his pig, happy that it will provide a good roast and a supply of goose fat. At his next stop in a village Hans meets a scissor-grinder and explains his story to him. The scissor-grinder offers him a grindstone for his goose arguing that a grindstone will provide a source of income. Hans happily exchanges the goose for the grindstone. He continues on his way, but is tired carrying the grindstone and is short of money for food. Hans stops for a drink on the banks of a river, the grindstone falls into the deep water and is lost. Hans is happy to be rid of the heavy grindstone and being free of all troubles. He walks on to his mother's house and recounts his lucky tale.
Good part of this video is that i learnt what the word "flee" means 😅. Dont be sad, one moment they might come back, imagine some day you buy some of them and you see your own writing on the book and like the important is if you got some knowledge from it, the book is not just the outside, it is the ideas inside of it and you can take this ideas to your mind so part of these books are probably inside of your mind, they will always be part of you.
Down sizing is tough & painful. I had a small machine tool operation & sold off everything & moved to another country. However, I managed to keep my lastest edition of the Machinery Handbook & other references for helping folks here. Stay stoic.
NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I've always wanted to audit one of your classes as you seem as such a cool professor to learn from!!! I'm sad you're leaving, but I fully support your decision to travel! Good luck on your travels! We will see your great adventures with great curiosity! Stay well and be safe!!!
Thank you so much for all the great videos about Mathematics.I am a former Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Student at the University of Maryland , College Park. I got my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in the early 1990s.
Sorcerer - I'm sorry you have to give up some of your collection. I will say though - We appreciate the option you chose here. I think selling these texts will make you more money than you anticipate, and some of us will be buying them strictly for the fact that YOU were the prior owner and featured the book at one point. I know i'll be buying one for that reason alone. We wish you the best. - Jason (Connecticut)
Your channel has a special place in my heart and I also love to collect science books. I have a question about some math book I enjoyed but have lost on my old HDD: this is a math book about programming, it has a lot of small paragraphs about some programming concepts/datatypes, each always starts in simple language and quickly turns into very advanded lands. I don't remember anything about it even the file name except of few bits of its content: A function y = f(x) is an equialent of an endless array of pairs x[i] and y[i] If you have the set of requirements P and your program succeeds the set set of requirements Q where Q is stricter than P then the customer will be satisfied And several ways of saying "all is not lost" on a purely math language where the last word is represented with regular letters and the rest - with Latex.
I really think your collection is priceless and would be worth it to pay the extra money to bring it with you. You can store all of the books in boxes and then leave them in a friends house or any other service. And once your all settled in your new home you can ship them back to yourself.
this is the problem with 'collecting.' i had to get rid of my vinyl collection of 50 years, art books, electronics lab etc. i got 300 bucks for the records and the guy told me it was all 'waste.' no way i was gonna lug it across the country. he gleefully threw it all in his truck when the deal was done. you find out how much value they have when folks know you need to pitch it under duress. ($value
After doing my doctorate in the UK, I had to leave a bunch of my FEM, ultrasonics, and Greek learning books. Those last ones were particularly painful, because they helped me immerse in my partner's language and culture, and kept me sane during the endless covid lockdowns. I'm still a bit angry about that.
I recently went through this same trauma. We had recently moved my mom who is In her 90s and had accumulated seven decades of sewing and quilting books which we had to trim down, It prompted me to do the same at home getting rid of 16 boxes of books most were more recently acquired books, others were on the same topic or topics I was no longer interested in. I I kept the three best books for each topic and chucked the rest. Try to keep one book for each math topic and keep your old ones. Take care. PS Why not place them in storage? it might be cheaper than selling at a loss and paying postage.
Oh man. I love this channel. Sorry to see you go but I guess you will still be making videos. I will def check out the store. I bought some books you had recommended last year. Also bought some of your Udemy courses. I am retired Systems Engineer but still enjoy math. Be safe man! Guess you have to sell all your weights too?
I mean you've enriched us with your channels and specifically books for many videos i'd love to chip in with everyone to help you get them around with in fact i'd really hope you'd do that .
I really love pdf's and collected a lot of science and engineering that way. Karlsruhe or Munich have a great number of linked libraries. Each individual library has a day in the semester where you can give them books. They either add them to the collection so you can read them there, or they get sold or given away at the library. Enjoy your travelling!
You can start bidding on the books here, more books to come: www.ebay.com/usr/themathsorcerer
(books will take a bit to show up, the store is new) Here are the individual books so far
www.ebay.com/itm/186595817049
www.ebay.com/itm/186594770160
www.ebay.com/itm/186594342687
www.ebay.com/itm/186594329024
www.ebay.com/itm/186594174889
www.ebay.com/itm/186594233253
www.ebay.com/itm/186594152958
www.ebay.com/itm/186594120008
www.ebay.com/itm/186594021290
www.ebay.com/itm/186593685742
www.ebay.com/itm/186593595689
www.ebay.com/itm/186593524220
www.ebay.com/itm/186593020740
www.ebay.com/itm/186592890508
www.ebay.com/itm/186592838060
www.ebay.com/itm/186592777593
www.ebay.com/itm/186592685980
www.ebay.com/itm/186592616192
www.ebay.com/itm/186592503758
www.ebay.com/itm/186592458526
www.ebay.com/itm/186592154148
www.ebay.com/itm/186592170183
www.ebay.com/itm/186592175237
www.ebay.com/itm/186592179580
www.ebay.com/itm/186592182775
www.ebay.com/itm/186592433204
Why not have them in the stacks at the University/College you were faculty, as a legacy.
They could scan them, and share them world wide.
No books in that link, sorcerer
There are no books in that link -- just checked. Pls announce when they will be listed.
What the madlads bought them all already? Lol
All the books are already gone?
“Fleeing” had me thinking the math elders decided he’s committed treason and must be banished
Yes, the math wizards caught him sniffing... the head deans favorite math book, in the library and now he can't go back.
When the Franco-Prussian War started, some like Lie, Klein, and more had to flee or face imprisonment!
He divided by zero. We have to draw the line somewhere.
No statistics available on how many Mathematicians are fleeing Russia, Ukraine, other drafts, wars, etc. Likewise difficult to find records of how many German mathematicians would have dodged draft by fleeing to Switzerland during WWs in the last century…
He was addicted to Lean (the theorem prover)
I thought bro finally divided by zero and the FBI was after him or something 😭
hahahahaha omg this made me laugh so hard, thx for this:)
Bro wrote Terrance Howard's proofs or something
The FBI after me too tbh but it's more bc of my search history
Video Title: I'm fleeing the country
Video: How am I going to get rid of all these books?
To be fair, his book collection is absolutely massive.
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I agree, we still don't know which country he's is going to, i downvoted this video.
As someone who has moved, books are one of the HARDEST things to move.
They are heavy, they take up a lot of space, and you don't want to part with them because they are expensive/you have sentimental value with them.
10:08 r4cist remark, but ok
This is insane man. You’re the reason I’m going back to Seminole state college man. You have no idea just how much a profound coincidence it is in my life that you taught there. I was a trucker for about 5 years and then while I was on the road, thousands of miles from home, I found your channel and completed differential equations for fun. You led me down the rabbit hole to pursuing electrical engineering. And I’ve lived near Seminole state my entire life
"completed differential equations for fun" ... so nice to know there are more of us out there who are just this odd (according to others)!!!
Good luck going to college! I hope you enjoy it and learn lots. P.S. I like your profile pic ✊️☭.
With that profile pic you're bound to enjoy University culture
Communist ex-trucker math nerd? We're hitting levels of based that shouldn't be possible
Did you choose that pfp to weed out the detritus? If so, it is working wonderfully.
Fleeing the country is a wild title! 😭😭
Yep bye
@@nuclearicebreakerdont be a hater, he cares a lot
@@bragastrong I would never hate! I’m being sarcastic! I love his math vids!
@@flashbarry296 the other guy, not you
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The sorcerer looks a bit like Jeff Bezos with long hair
He is smarter.
Are you kidding? That's literally Jeff Bezos in disguise. He thought he's slick.
Jeff Pesos
Selling books out of his garage nonetheless.
Jeff was going to school to be a quant
Suggestion: Autograph the books you sell and charge extra!
Great idea, absolutely. He did the work to curate them. One of the few who deserves to call himself a curator.
You don't charge extra in an auction, you accept bids. Autographed books might draw higher bids.
@@aeromodeller1 Most auctions have a minimum starting bid, but I see your larger point. I think signed copies should start higher. Just my opinion.
@@aeromodeller1 Yes, you are correct. My statement was meant to be a general statement, meaning, accept only bids above a certain amount larger than otherwise it would have been or, like I myself, sell instead of having people bid. For there books TMS is selling, auction is definitely best.
He did
The world is losing the greatest teacher I've ever known if you're not teaching anymore! It was an honor to have had you as a mentor Dr.G!
As a fellow collector of maths & science books, I totally relate to this problem. 12 years ago, my basement was flooded & I lost a ton of books I had collected for decades but didn’t have space for upstairs. I have since vowed to only buy electronic books from then on. Today, virtual my book collection follows me everywhere in my iPhone, iPad, computers & backed up in the cloud. I can travel light & moving is no longer a huge headache. Yes, I do miss the tactile experience & the smell of real paper books, but I cannot deny the improvements in freedom & convenience. Godspeed & safe travels, Math Sorcerer. 🧙♂🤓📚🔬
I highly relate to this!!!! I do miss the books but I remember that maybe witches or wizards/sorcerers etc would probably go bonkers with the tech we have now!
That's why I take my time to digitalize important papers.
Is this the legendary dad random lore drop
Ever since I took your class when I was in college you have been a huge inspiration. I wish you luck in your future endeavors and I love to see you thrive!
Thanks
Thank you:)
He woke up one day and realized, "I'm not a collector. I'm a hoarder." 🤣
Yeah but he actually practices his craft, not just wastes his money buying just to be buying only to do nothing with them. Now That’s a sign of mental illness, which is the moniker of a hoarder.
Hey math sorcerer, you can transform them into pdf, (if there's no already a pdf available to download from google), and store them in your laptop or phone, at least you won't lose them, you would still have a pdf version of them, i hope you do that
If you do you could also share them online, just saying... 😉
Most if not all are out there as pdf.
@@alanx4121I'm pretty sure not every one of them has good scan. So it might be worth checking and paying specialist to do it.
Good luck scanning math books with hundreds of pages and with his collection probably 10s of thousands of pages😂
@@oldbot64 there are machines that do this automatically and fast
I got rid of half of my books 27 years ago when I moved from my father's house and I still regret it.
I managed to replace them during the past years but could not find two, which makes me very sad.
I will not do it again, my books are my daughters.
Good luck with your new future.
I can understand this feeling. I had to give away many books as I moved to a smaller house less than a year ago. And I still think of at least one of them which I had used for studies.
I am an older person, and I got rid of probably, 2,500 books a few years ago. Thousands of dollars. I went from an entire library room full of double shelved books to one 6 shelf billy bookcase and one three shelf billy bookcase. I thought it would be so difficult! Mine went to the local library book sale. Probably eight or nine pickup truck loads later, I was done. What a weight off my shoulders! Now I have a one in-one out policy. You can’t take it with you. I don’t need to have them just to have them, collecting dust. It has been so freeing.
Thank you! And your books will live on, to the many people that will read them!
your channel has helped me beyond math I wish you all the success in the future.
I recently moved and had stacks upon stacks of boxes bursting with math books, and I know it would total to a minute portion of your collection. Culling your collection to a more manageable load to travel with is a significant amount of work, so awesome you're willing to do it to give us a chance to enjoy some of the books from your collection! Really hope I'll be able to pick up a book or two from your store, thank you for all of your hard work and fantastic mathematics content - good luck and I'm excited to see the new videos throughout your travels!
Holy shit! The worlds are colliding. This is epic
You are da best Math Sorcerer, safe travels! Walk the Earth! I hope you get as much money as possible for your books. You continue to be a positive influence on so many people, rock on!
You were my favorite Prof at Seminole State in sanford. You always said “I see said the blind man!” And i still quote it to this day! Good luck!
0:10 had me laughing out loud. The tone of your voice when saying you have to get rid of some of those wonderfully scented old books...
hi, professor. i was one of your student at ssc and thanks for the passion and energy. you are the best
, thank you soo much for the marvelous content.
I need your help in finding a good book about calculus and probability. I am doing neuroscience research and I know I need a good understanding about calculus and probability. my current knowledge limited (I studied undergrad level of calculus and almost zero probability)
I just need the recommended books title , I can buy them in my own.
I would get any and all books by Sheldon Ross. He has several on probability, get all the cheap ones:) They all use calculus at some point and include tons of examples. For Calculus I would just use a regular Calculus book. Something like Stewart's Calculus or Larson's Calculus. Thank you:)
Sounds like a Sabbatical. Hope you enjoy your travels
It's not hoarding if it's books.
A lesson I learned many years ago is to avoid wasting time, energy, and money collecting things. They'll eventually become a burden or an albatross around one's neck.
Less things means more flexibility and an overall fulfilling life.
- Less is more
I am just realizing this now as I am surrounded in a prison of possessions.
That is what My wife says to me
quite true....a errant like me, should take that advice, everything starts as a back up, and then when I notice, develop love and caring and already have a lot and become a hoarder
I acquired that style through programming and making my life problems and tasks as simple and effective as possible
I don't agree, you can never build up a beautiful collection in that way
Math Sorcerer, you have been a huge inspiration for me and I have a suggestion. Please take your time on this up and coming collection series. Even though i'm not yet as a genius in Mathematics as you, I still for whatever reason get excited watching your videos/shorts on an obscure Math book, especially if that book covers a super advanced math topic iv'e ever even heard of. Gives me the same feeling people feel watching an episode of their favorite anime, when a new character appears, one with new dope powers and a cool backstory. I'm only a senior in highschool and your videos stimulate my excitement for math. Thankyou for what you do man. ❤
This is such A major part of your life and I hope you enjoy the next part and beyond. Good luck
You scared me with the term "flee".
Yeah me too i thought a war broke out in his country or something😂.
@@fighter500mx3 Isn't he American?
Fleeing means running away from war or dictator or system and coming back after situation clears (maybe after decades) usually or atleast as I understand. Forgot language after studying maths
My mother was a book fanatic, and she loved a change of scenery. Moving was hell!
Yessss!
The Ebay store is empty right now. I'm waiting. I have shelves that need a fillin'
The individual links work though
One of the books is already at $1000 lmao.
@@_________________404 troll bidders
Been a fan for a long time. Can't wait to see what you have planned for the channel. I patiently await your next videos and wish you safe travels.
I am hoping the math sorcerer will go on an archivist style journey where he tours all libraries around the world and scans as many of the books as he can. What a legendary fella
Have you considered options like
1. Renting some storage unit to stash them away while you are travelling? I believe such services must be common and affordable in the US given that a large part of the population are not permanent home owners.
2. Lending them to some local library with the agreement that you still reserve full ownership of them and can take them back when you wish? Apart from some minor kerfuffle in adding/removing them from the catalog (and perhaps some legal formalities), this should be a win-win proposition for the library.
3. Same as (2) above, but distribute among friends/colleagues/students instead of a library? Admittedly not very practical overall, but perhaps may work for a small fraction of your collection that you neither want to carry around nor part ways with.
i was also one of your math students ♡ thank you for your dedication
Thank you for your videos. I learned a lot from you: not just math, but also a positive attitude towards learning and life. Have a safe trip and look forward to your new videos.
Just finished the first assignment of the calculus 2 course and I'm living ny best life with that honestly thank you for making maths accessibile you are a great teacher
Selling the items you love is not easy. As an extremely experienced eBay seller, I am sure many of them will sell for more than a penny. Also put a little extra in the shipping cost to cover eBay fees on shipping cost. this will allow you not to lose money. in the continental US you can ship a 2 lb book media mail for $5.50 or so. I would charge $7 shipping to cover ebay fees and to ensure you do not lose money.
Nobody would buy a $1 book with $7 shipping. The other option is putting it to garbage, which he wants to avoid emotionally. So maybe he is willing to pay something (to loose money) to get the books to somebody who likes them.
I feel you, brother.
And I feel your pain.
Books are like little treasure troves of knowledge - so, just know they’ll be going to a good place - to carry with them knowledge into another person.
You're paying homage to Paul Erdos.
Happy Travels
I’m so happy that this channel is growing fast I’m kind of proud tbh ❤
You continue to be a real inspiration to me! Watching your videos got me studying again (just a hobbyist and a high school math teacher) - working my way through John Lee Introduction to Smooth Manifolds.
DON'T DO IT: I WAS FACED WITH THE SAME DILEMMA AND THREW AWAY 35 YEARS OF MY COLLECTION OF MATH BOOKS 😮....
20 boxes to the library book sale.
Wow...
As a book lover myself, I can relate to your pain.
It feels so good when one wants to deep dive on a subject (or refresh) then one's got a good reference book handy!
I wish you all the best in you new endeavors and many thanks for passionately sharing your appreciation and love for math and science books!
My friend Ryan of over 24 years like you. His whole life is academics, no family, no marriage, and no ties that bind. I knew he was a free spirit when we meet. Wish you the best Sorcerer on your travel and research.
Thank you so much for all your help and safe travels.
I'm very interested in purchasing some, but I live in Sweden. Is there any chance that you'll make them available for international shipping?
Thank you for mentioning how attaching a story to a book acquisition is in fact an actual activity/hobby lol. Seeing the world teaching math and visiting libraries is certainly the dream. Best of luck to you, and safe travels! Looking forward to cool adventure stories \m/
less alarmed when I hear your reasons. Love your channel, it continues to help many and hope you have safe and enjoyable travels.
I've had to do that a few times, so I know how tough it is. I first did it after my foreign study abroad ended and I needed to return home. Then again when I moved out of the country. While I did my best to limit my collection to only my most favorite, ultimately I regret loosing a number of those books. (And even the books that I did keep they were so expensive to ship...)
Even now my bookshelves are too full. Every few years I need to get rid of some books and it is always so difficult. I guess that is the pain of being a book lover. Best of luck to you.
enjoy your adventure! really enjoy your videos. two "pro tips" for boxing books to ship - use banker boxes (built in handles and trades off shipping excessively heavy boxes and line them with a recyclable plastic bag)
Proud of you, man. I'm giving away most of my books too, but not my math books. Since I've been using a Kindle for a few years now, I thought if I'm not using them, somebody who will use them should have them. There's no point in having books just for decoration.
Before you go. What is 2+2?
Terrence howard says it isn’t 2
Bertrand Russel took hundreds of pages to prove 1+1=2. in Principia Mathematica.
2 + 2 = Treason
@@newcontentyesterday23What’s a …. “Terrance Howard “….? Sounds like a nimrod.
@@cybervigilante Then George Boole said, these aren't numerical values fool!
the math sorcerer at large! can't wait for all the great content to come!
Congratulations.
Your journeys are going to make all that hard work
worth it. You gotta be stoked.
Math books...okay.. but definitely take your surfboard.
I have a feeling your videos are going to be even better than before. Excited to see what you bring to the channel.
Man it's crazy to see how much your channel has grown over the years. When I met you on a certain game years ago, you had just a few thousand subscribers I think? And now you're nearing 1 mil and you're starting a new chapter in life. Really exciting stuff! I hope your collection finds some happy homes.
Hey Math Sorcerer … I just learned about you … Sorry to hear you’re going to have to trim your book collection 😢 … But I’m glad to hear you’ll be visiting university libraries and sharing your math adventures with us 😊 … There’s nothing like the scent of a library!
Wait what SORCERER
What do you mean Harry
HE IS A WIZARD ! ( emphasis on hagrids accent)
The wizard book: SICP
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs
I’ve kept all my undergrad/grad math books. I wrote my notes in them. Never accumulated others.
I don’t get why that collection isn’t in a storage until you find your landing.
Storage costs anywhere from $100 to $1000/month, depending on various factors. Income vs. value of books is a real calculation.
Check with auction houses, like Heritage Auctions or Christies. They might handle the whole thing for you, for a fee.
:)
I moved in October and had to make similar choices. I was able to keep most of them. It's not just the books the it's also the friends you made studying those subjects, the person that recommended the book to you, the person you got the book from, the other significant life events that were going on in your life when you studied that subject, the excitement you felt when you first opened ed, and yes in some cases the history behind them.
That's a good idea.You know people like you are really needed in my country in our universities.
Don't get caught sniffing the universities math books 😂
Sounds like an interesting adventure. I can see you keeping your books somewhere safe because some are just too valuable to give away. I struggle with a similar issue.
Ni hablar mi estimado, triste por un lado porque sè lo que se siente. Tambièn tengo mi colecciòn de libros de Matemàticas - aunque insignificante comparada con tu colecciòn.
Creo que el saber que personas se beneficiaràn es el consuelo.
Por otro lado, inicias una nueva etapa en tu vida y por lo que veo es emocianante.
Mi estimado Hechicero de Matemàticas, felicidades por tu canal (youtube) y seguimos viendo tus videos, uno aprende mucho.
GRACIAS !!
DIOS TE BENDIGA SIEMPRE!!
Have a great journey. Cheers for all the wonderful videos. Love from Wimbledon in London.
that's why I love digital copies for books, they do not replace the experience of reading a physical book, but you still keep the info and is available if ever needed to consult
I probably have as many books as you, with a high concentration in math, physics, chemistry, and neurosciences. I have purchased these books extremely selectively over the course of my life, not as a collector but as a useful library that I consult at any time I become involved in or have a question on a specific topic or get an intense "brain itch" that I need to scratch. I been doing this throughout my life and I still have books that I have purchased since the 1950's and very seldom have sold or disposed of any. The older books constitute the comprehensive summation of a person's ideas on a subject that he/she has mastered and are conceptually from a different world and mindset than most books of today that are a written on the basis of "publish or perish"
I have these books on my shelves not as a show of my learning, but as a testament to my ignorance since if I knew the material they contained I would have no need to have the book.
I didn't know you were into MTG. You're even cooler now 😎. Love your content. Blessed journeys no matter where you land
Ask a university library you can trust, if they would like to keep them while you travel. The other option,you can ask the State library if they want them.
If you decide to vist Pythagoras' birth place, Samos island in Greece, I will be happy to show you around and visit the Math Department in the local University! Take care.
Good tidings on your future journeys Sorc, am excited to see the new collab
I feel for you. I still have every book that I used as a math student and many of the books I used for the math classes that I taught. Have a wonderful journey!
My brother and I are acquiring rare maths and science books for our former high school in Northern Ghana. So I'll be pitching camp on your ebay page. I wish you the best of all you wish yourself in your new endeavor...
Good luck with the travels! Visiting uni libraries and interviewing mathematicians sounds awesome!
I love all these titles!
Hans in Luck (Hans im Glück)
Hans has been working hard for seven years but wishes to return to see his poor mother. His master pays him his wages which amounts to a lump of gold the size of his head. Hans puts the gold in a handkerchief and starts out on his journey jogging but soon becomes tired. He spots a rider on horseback and seeing the ease at which the horse travels he offers to exchange his lump of gold for the horse. Happy with the exchange, the man gives him the horse and Hans rides off.
The horse bolts and Hans gets bucked off, whereupon he meets a shepherd who convinces Hans to trade his horse for a cow. Telling Hans that a cow can provide milk, cheese and butter and is of more leisurely company. Hans takes up on the offer and continues his journey only to find that the cow is dry and not producing any milk as he had been told.
Disgruntled with the cow, Hans meets a butcher who gives him a pig for the cow. Thanking the butcher for the pig Hans sets off jogging again, hopeful he has now found an ideal travel companion. Alas, Hans meets a countryman who informs him that the pig's owner is the squire and he is in danger of being arrested for taking the squire's pig. Hans takes the countryman's goose in exchange for his pig, happy that it will provide a good roast and a supply of goose fat.
At his next stop in a village Hans meets a scissor-grinder and explains his story to him. The scissor-grinder offers him a grindstone for his goose arguing that a grindstone will provide a source of income. Hans happily exchanges the goose for the grindstone. He continues on his way, but is tired carrying the grindstone and is short of money for food.
Hans stops for a drink on the banks of a river, the grindstone falls into the deep water and is lost. Hans is happy to be rid of the heavy grindstone and being free of all troubles. He walks on to his mother's house and recounts his lucky tale.
Good travels Math sorcerer ❤ New Adventure begin!
Good part of this video is that i learnt what the word "flee" means 😅. Dont be sad, one moment they might come back, imagine some day you buy some of them and you see your own writing on the book and like the important is if you got some knowledge from it, the book is not just the outside, it is the ideas inside of it and you can take this ideas to your mind so part of these books are probably inside of your mind, they will always be part of you.
Will be waiting for awesome ebay posts
Down sizing is tough & painful. I had a small machine tool operation & sold off everything & moved to another country. However, I managed to keep my lastest edition of the Machinery Handbook & other references for helping folks here. Stay stoic.
Ebay store says, "We are sold out, but here are some other stores you may be interested in."
NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I've always wanted to audit one of your classes as you seem as such a cool professor to learn from!!! I'm sad you're leaving, but I fully support your decision to travel! Good luck on your travels! We will see your great adventures with great curiosity! Stay well and be safe!!!
Thank you so much for all the great videos about Mathematics.I am a former Electrical Engineering and Mathematics Student at the University of Maryland , College Park. I got my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics in the early 1990s.
Sorcerer - I'm sorry you have to give up some of your collection. I will say though - We appreciate the option you chose here. I think selling these texts will make you more money than you anticipate, and some of us will be buying them strictly for the fact that YOU were the prior owner and featured the book at one point. I know i'll be buying one for that reason alone. We wish you the best. - Jason (Connecticut)
The only constant in life is: "change." So said Heraclitus.
Good luck in your new endeavor, Math Sorcerer.
The very "problem" of hauling books around when having to move is exactly why I moved on to digital.
Your channel has a special place in my heart and I also love to collect science books. I have a question about some math book I enjoyed but have lost on my old HDD: this is a math book about programming, it has a lot of small paragraphs about some programming concepts/datatypes, each always starts in simple language and quickly turns into very advanded lands. I don't remember anything about it even the file name except of few bits of its content:
A function y = f(x) is an equialent of an endless array of pairs x[i] and y[i]
If you have the set of requirements P and your program succeeds the set set of requirements Q where Q is stricter than P then the customer will be satisfied
And several ways of saying "all is not lost" on a purely math language where the last word is represented with regular letters and the rest - with Latex.
Your plan is crazy and we look forward to see all the videos from your next journey🎉
I really think your collection is priceless and would be worth it to pay the extra money to bring it with you.
You can store all of the books in boxes and then leave them in a friends house or any other service. And once your all settled in your new home you can ship them back to yourself.
this is the problem with 'collecting.' i had to get rid of my vinyl collection of 50 years, art books, electronics lab etc. i got 300 bucks for the records and the guy told me it was all 'waste.' no way i was gonna lug it across the country. he gleefully threw it all in his truck when the deal was done.
you find out how much value they have when folks know you need to pitch it under duress. ($value
What kind of records? They can be worth a lot depending on how you kept them. And off course what music it is.
After doing my doctorate in the UK, I had to leave a bunch of my FEM, ultrasonics, and Greek learning books. Those last ones were particularly painful, because they helped me immerse in my partner's language and culture, and kept me sane during the endless covid lockdowns. I'm still a bit angry about that.
Seeing you grow this much has been been motivating for me
I recently went through this same trauma. We had recently moved my mom who is In her 90s and had accumulated seven decades of sewing and quilting books which we had to trim down, It prompted me to do the same at home getting rid of 16 boxes of books most were more recently acquired books, others were on the same topic or topics I was no longer interested in. I I kept the three best books for each topic and chucked the rest. Try to keep one book for each math topic and keep your old ones. Take care. PS Why not place them in storage? it might be cheaper than selling at a loss and paying postage.
Oh man. I love this channel. Sorry to see you go but I guess you will still be making videos. I will def check out the store. I bought some books you had recommended last year. Also bought some of your Udemy courses. I am retired Systems Engineer but still enjoy math. Be safe man! Guess you have to sell all your weights too?
I'm ready for the next level
I mean you've enriched us with your channels and specifically books for many videos i'd love to chip in with everyone to help you get them around with in fact i'd really hope you'd do that .
I really love pdf's and collected a lot of science and engineering that way. Karlsruhe or Munich have a great number of linked libraries. Each individual library has a day in the semester where you can give them books. They either add them to the collection so you can read them there, or they get sold or given away at the library.
Enjoy your travelling!