400 € from the governament to buy all the books one might want

Question

If they gave you 400 euros to buy any book or cultural material you could think of what would you buy?

In Italy we recieve \~500 euro to buy books and cultural material with when we turn 18. My bonus is going to automatically deplete next month and with 400 euros remaining I was wondering what would be the best books to get regarding math and physiscs.

For more context I am doing a physiscs degree and I am taking real analysis, geometry and newtonian physiscs and my exams are near. Next year I ll take complex analysis, fundamentals of computer science and something called electromagnetism.

I really liked all the courses this year and I am interested in anything that might help with my university career. Thanks in advance!

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Edit: just realized that it might be called geometry only in Italy so I will list out some key arguments: vectors, matrices, stainitz lemma, conicals, eigenvalues.

Answer 1

Look at the books your future courses use on the uni's site.
For em is probably mazzoldi 2 whic is poor written and lessons are probably enough.

Answer 2

Feynman Lectures in Physics is a good investment. It's not maths, but will not be wasted.

Answer 3

Geometry

Minicozzi & Colding

Answer 4

in english or in italian? look up the dover textbooks

Answer 5

The Art of Computer Programming

Answer 6

I was in a very similar situation to yours. Word of advice, if you are still early in your Bachelor or Master you may want to look and ask for which books you are gonna need for the courses you wanna take in the future, in terms of ROI this trick was very useful to me.

Answer 7

I pirate my textbooks and print them using services for self-edition. I suggest you do the same.

Answer 8

"The Pragmatic Programmer" Also you might want an introduction to scientific computation book but I can't recommend the one I had in school. Communication skills are often under-emphasized so you could look at books on improving technical writing and communication skills.

Answer 9

You have to get defo some books in Analysis, Topology and Algebraic Geometry. My particular recommendations:

1-Algebraic Geometry, Robin Hartshorne.

2-Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, Joe Harris.

3-Commutative Algebra: with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry, David Eisenbud.

4-Complex Analysis, Serge Lang.

5-Advanced linear algebra, Steven Roman.

6-Linear algebra done right, Sheldon Axler.

7-An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Joseph J. Rotman .

8-An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Charles A. Weibel.

9-Categories for the Working Mathematician, Saunders Mac Lane.

10-.Introduction to Real Analysis, Christopher Heil.

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This should do more that 400 euros. These are the books I personally would never skip. Feel free to change my recommendations with other books you might prefer about these topics. Best editorials to find these are Springer, Cambridge, Oxford, Wiley, Princeton, AMS, De Gruyter and CRC Press. There you can find more. Also, I recommend to buy the books directly from their websites as there it will be cheaper than in other places. Enjoy your travel through the beautiful world of mathematics!

Answer 10

I would just go online and download all my books for free and the ones that I couldn’t find, (usually I find all of them), are at the university library so I photocopy the relevant sections. Then I’d take €500 and go have myself a good fucking time with the lads.

Fuck paying exorbitant sums for books. Fuck being taken advantage of by for profit academic institutions starting from the ripe age of 18.