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Textbook assignments for spring, summer, and fall 2020 are listed below. The Cornell Store offers a wide variety of options for purchase or rental (new books, used books, and e-books) both in store and through their web site.
Thanks to the Cornell Mathematics Library, free versions of textbooks are available (and linked below) for many upper-level and graduate courses in mathematics.
MATH 1002 - PSP Calculus Preparation and Quantitative Methods // summer 2020
Hass, Heil, and Weir, Thomas’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Single Variable 14, Pearson Education, 2018 (978-0-13-443941-9).
MATH 1003 - PSP Statistics Preparation and Quantitative Methods // summer 2020
Lial, Greenwell, and Ritchey, Finite Mathematics, Pearson Education, 2016 (Edition: 11; ISBN: 978-0-321-97943-8).
MATH 1101 - Calculus Preparation // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 1105 - Finite Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences // fall 2020
Lial, Greenwell, and Ritchey, Finite Mathematics, Pearson Education, 2016 (Edition: 11; ISBN: 978-0-321-97943-8) — Instant Access through Canvas
(optional) Lial, Greenwell, and Ritchey, Student's Solutions Manual for Finite Mathematics, Pearson Education, 2016 (Edition: 11; ISBN: 978-0-321-99742-5).
MATH 1106 - Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences // spring 2020
Garfinkel, Shevtsov, and Guo, Modeling Life: The Mathematics of Biological Systems, Springer, 2017 (ISBN: 978-3-319-59730-0) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 1110 - Calculus I // fall 2019, spring 2020, summer 2020
Hass, Heil, and Weir, Thomas’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Single Variable, Pearson Education, 2018 (Edition: 14; ISBN: 978-0-13-443941-9).
MATH 1120 - Calculus II // fall 2019, spring 2020, summer 2020
Hass, Heil, and Weir, Thomas’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Single Variable, Pearson Education, 2018 (Edition: 14; ISBN: 978-0-13-443941-9).
MATH 1220 - Theoretical Calculus II // fall 2020
Lang, Serge, Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus”, Springer, 2002 (978-0-387-95327-4) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 1300 - Mathematical Explorations // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 1340 - Strategy, Cooperation, and Conflict // spring 2020
Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley, Games of Strategy, W. W. Norton and Company, 2014 (Edition: 4; ISBN: 978-0-393-12444-6).
(optional) Dixit and Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life, W. W. Norton and Company, 2010 (ISBN: 978-0-393-33717-4).
MATH 1710 - Statistical Theory and Application in the Real World // spring 2020, fall 2020
Diez, Barr, and Çetinkaya-Rundel, OpenIntro Statistics, OpenIntro, Inc., 2015 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 978-1-943450-03-9) — free PDF version through Canvas
MATH 1890 - FWS: Writing in Mathematics // spring 2020
Gladwell, Malcom, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Little Brown & Company, 2007 (ISBN: 978-0-316-01066-5).
Kahneman, Daniel, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-374-53355-7).
O'Neil, Cathy, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Crown/Archetype, 2017 (ISBN: 978-0-553-41883-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Saina, Angela, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, Beacon Press, 2018 (ISBN: 978-0-8070-1003-7).
Doxiadis and Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1-59691-452-0).
MATH 1910 - Calculus For Engineers // fall 2019, spring 2020, summer 2020
Rogawski, Adams, and Franzosa, Calculus, W. H. Freeman, 2019 (Edition: 4; ISBN: 978-1-319-05073-3).
MATH 1920 - Multivariable Calculus For Engineers // fall 2019, spring 2020, summer 2020
Rogawski, Adams, and Franzosa, Calculus, W. H. Freeman, 2019 (Edition: 4; ISBN: 978-1-319-05073-3).
MATH 2130 - Calculus III // spring 2020
Hughes-Hallett, et al., Calculus: Single and Multivariable, Wiley, 2017 (Edition: 7; ISBN: 978-1-119-26000-4) — Instant Access through Canvas
MATH 2210 - Linear Algebra // spring 2020, fall 2020
Lay, Lay, and McDonald, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Pearson Education, 2016 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-321-98238-4) — Instant Access through Canvas (fall 2020)
spring 2020 - No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 2220 - Multivariable Calculus // spring 2020, fall 2020
Marsden and Tromba, Vector Calculus, W. H. Freeman, 2013 (Edition: 6; ISBN: 1-4292-1508-9) — Instant Access through Canvas
MATH 2230 - Theoretical Linear Algebra and Calculus // fall 2020
Hubbard and Hubbard, Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach, Matrix Editions, 2015 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-9715766-8-1).
(optional) Hubbard and Hubbard, Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach, Student Solutions Manual, Matrix Editions, 2015 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-9715766-9-8).
MATH 2240 - Theoretical Linear Algebra and Calculus // spring 2020
Hubbard and Hubbard, Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach, Matrix Editions, 2015 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-9715766-8-1).
MATH 2310 - Linear Algebra with Applications // fall 2020
Strang, Gilbert, Introduction to Linear Algebra, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2016 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-9802327-7-6).
MATH 2930 - Differential Equations for Engineers // spring 2020, summer 2020, fall 2020
Boyce, DiPrima, and Meade, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, John Wiley & Sons, 2017 (Edition: 11; ePub ISBN: 978-1-119-38164-8) — Instant Access through Canvas (spring 2020, fall 2020); available summer 2020 as an ebook
MATH 2940 - Linear Algebra for Engineers // spring 2020, summer 2020, fall 2020
Lay, Lay, and McDonald, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Pearson Education, 2016 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-321-98238-4) — Instant Access through Canvas (spring 2020, fall 2020)
MATH 3040 - Prove It! // spring 2020, fall 2020
Beck and Geoghegan, The Art of Proof: Basic Training for Deeper Mathematics, Springer (ISBN: 978-1-4419-7022-0) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 3110 - Introduction to Analysis // spring 2020, fall 2020
Abbott, Stephen, Understanding Analysis, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 978-1-4939-2711-1) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 3210 - Manifolds and Differential Forms // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 3230 - Introduction to Differential Equations // fall 2020
Braun, Martin, Differential Equations and Their Applications 4, Springer, 1993 (978-0-387-97894-9) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Olver, Peter, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Springer, 2014 (978-3-319-02098-3) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 3320 - Introduction to Number Theory // fall 2020
Weissman, Martin, An Illustrated theory of Numbers, American Mathematical Society, 2017 (ISBN: 978-1-4704-3493-9).
MATH 3340 - Abstract Algebra // spring 2020
Beachy and Blair, Abstract Algebra, Waveland Press, Inc., 2019 (Edition: 4; ISBN: 978-1-4786-3869-8).
MATH 3360 - Applicable Algebra // spring 2020
Childs, Lindsay N., A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra, Springer-Verlag, 2009 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 0-387-74527-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 3610 - Mathematical Modeling // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 4130 - Honors Introduction to Analysis I // spring 2020, fall 2020
fall 2020 — Strichartz, Robert, The Way of Analysis (revised edition), Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2000 (ISBN: 0-7637-1497-6).
spring 2020 — Rudin, Walter, Principles of Mathematical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1976 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 0-07-054235-X).
MATH 4140 - Honors Introduction to Analysis II // spring 2020
Strichartz, Robert, The Way of Analysis (revised edition), Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2000 (ISBN: 0-7637-1497-6).
MATH 4180 – Complex Analysis // spring 2020
Levinson and Redheffer, Complex Variables, Holden-Day, Inc., 1970 (ISBN: 0-8162-5104-5).
MATH 4200 - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems // fall 2020
Strogatz, Steven H., Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering 2, Westview Press, 2014 (978-0-8133-4910-7)
MATH 4210 - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos // spring 2020
Devaney, Robert, An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, CRC Press, 2003 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 978-0-8133-4085-2).
MATH 4220 - Applied Complex Analysis // fall 2019
Saff and Snider, Fundamentals of Complex Analysis with Applications to Engineering, Science, and Mathematics, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 978-0-13-907874-3).
MATH 4250 - Numerical Analysis and Differential Equations // fall 2020
Kincaid and Cheney, Numerical Analysis: Mathematics of Scientific Computing 3 (revised), American Mathematical Society, 2009 (978-0-8218-4788-6).
(optional) Moler, Cleve, Numerical Computing with MATLAB, SIAM, 2004 (0-89871-560-1) — free through MathWorks
MATH 4280 - Introduction to Partial Differential Equations // spring 2020
Strauss, Walter, Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction, Wiley, 2007 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 0-470-05456-5).
MATH 4310 - Linear Algebra // spring 2020, fall 2020
(fall 2020 only) Axler, Sheldon, Linear Algebra Done Right 3, Springer, 2015 (978-3-319-11079-0) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Friedberg, Insel, and Spence, Linear Algebra, Prentice Hall PTR, 2018 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-0-13-486024-4) — Instant Access through Canvas (fall 2020), optional spring 2020
(optional, spring 2020 only) Cooperstein, Bruce, Advanced Linear Algebra 2, CRC Press LLC, 2015 (978-1-4822-4884-5).
MATH 4315 - Linear Algebra with Supplements // fall 2020
Friedberg, Insel, and Spence, Linear Algebra 4, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003 (0-13-008451-4) — Instant Access through Canvas
(optional) Lang, Serge, Undergraduate Algebra, Springer, 2005 (978-0-387-22025-3) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4330 - Honors Linear Algebra // fall 2019
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 4340 - Honors Introduction to Algebra // spring 2020
Dummit and Foote, Abstract Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, 2004 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 0-471-43334-9).
MATH 4410 - Introduction to Combinatorics I // fall 2020
Stanley, Richard P., Algebraic Combinatorics: Walks, Trees, Tableaux, and More 2, Springer, 2018 (978-3-319-77172-4) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4420 - Introduction to Combinatorics II // spring 2020
Van Lint and Wilson, A Course in Combinatorics (paperback), Cambridge University Press, 2001 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 0-521-00601-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4500 - Matrix Groups // spring 2020
Stillwell, John, Naive Lie Theory, Springer-Verlag, 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-78214-0) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4530 - Introduction to Topology // fall 2020
Jänich, Klaus, Topology, Springer, 1984 (ISBN: 978-0-387-90892-2).
MATH 4540 - Introduction to Differential Geometry // spring 2020
Pressley, Andrew, Elementary Differential Geometry, Springer-Verlag, 2010 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 978-1-84882-890-2) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4560 - Geometry of Discrete Groups // fall 2020
Meier, John, An Introduction to the Geometry of Infinite Groups, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (978-0-521-71977-3) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
(optional) Clay and Margalit, Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist, Princeton University Press, 2017 (978-0-691-15866-2) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4710 - Basic Probability // spring 2020, fall 2020
Anderson, Seppalainen, and Valko, Introduction to Probability, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (ISBN: 978-1-108-41585-9).
MATH 4720 - Statistics // spring 2020
Rice, John A., Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, Brooks/Cole, 2007 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 0-534-39942-8).
MATH 4740 - Stochastic Processes // spring 2020
Durrett, Richard, Essentials of Stochastic Processes, Springer, 2016 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 978-3-3194-5613-3) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 4810 - Mathematical Logic // fall 2020
Enderton, Herbert, A Mathematical Introduction to Logic 2, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2000 (0-12-238452-0).
MATH 6110 - Real Analysis // fall 2020
Stein and Shakarchi, Real Analysis: Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces, Princeton University Press, 2005 (ISBN: 0-691-11386-6).
Stein and Shakarchi, Functional Analysis: Introduction to Further Topics in Analysis, Princeton University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0-691-11387-6).
Stein and Shakarchi, Fourier Analysis: An Introduction, Princeton University Press, 2003 (ISBN: 0-691-11384-X).
MATH 6120 - Complex Analysis // spring 2020
Stein and Shakarchi, Complex Analysis, Princeton University Press, 2003 (ISBN: 0-691-11385-8).
MATH 6160 - Partial Differential Equations // spring 2020
Evans, Lawrence, Partial Differential Equations, American Mathematical Society, 2010 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 978-0-8218-4974-3)
MATH 6210 - Measure Theory and Lebesgue Integration // fall 2020
Bartle, Robert, The Elements of Integration and Lebesgue Measure, John Wiley & Sons, 1966 (ISBN: 0-471-04222-6) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6220 - Applied Functional Analysis // spring 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6260 - Dynamical Systems // fall 2020
Katok and Hasselblat, Introduction to the Modern Theory of Dynamical Systems (paperback), Cambridge University Press, 1996 (0-521-57557-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Arnold, V. I., Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations 2, Springer-Verlag, 1988 (0-387-96649-8) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6270 - Applied Dynamical Systems (also MAE 7760) // spring 2020
Guckenheimer and Holmes, Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields, Springer, 1983 (ISBN: 0-387-90819-6) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6310 - Algebra // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6320 - Algebra // spring 2020
Dummit and Foote, Abstract Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, 2004 (Edition: 3; ISBN: 0-471-43334-9).
(optional) Fulton, William, Young Tableaux: with Applications to Representation Theory and Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (ISBN: 978-0-521-56724-4) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
(optional) Aluffi, Paolo, Algebra: Chapter 0, American Mathematical Society, 2009 (ISBN: 978-0-8218-4781-7).
MATH 6330 - Noncommutative Algebra // fall 2020
Rowen, Louis Halle, Graduate Algebra: Noncommutative View, American Mathematical Society, 2008 (978-0-8218-4153-2) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Farb & Dennis, Noncommutative Algebra, Springer-Verlag, 1993 (0-387-94057-X) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6340 - Commutative Algebra with Applications in Algebraic Geometry // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6350 - Homological Algebra // spring 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6370 - Algebraic Number Theory // spring 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6390 - Lie Groups and Lie Algebras // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6410 - Enumerative Combinatorics // spring 2020
Stanley, Richard, Enumertive Combinatorics, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (Edition: 2; ISBN: 1-107-60262-9) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6510 - Algebraic Topology // spring 2020
Hatcher, Allen, Algebraic Topology (paperback), Cambridge University Press, 2001 (0-521-79540-0).
MATH 6520 - Differentiable Manifolds // fall 2020
Lee, John M., Introduction to Smooth Manifolds (softcover) 2, Springer-Verlag, 2012 (978-1-4419-9981-8) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6530 - K-Theory and Characteristic Classes // fall 2020
No required textbook. The instructor may provide notes, references, or links to on-line resources.
MATH 6630 - Symplectic Geometry // fall 2020
Cannas da Silva, Ana, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry, Springer-Verlag, 2001 (978-3-540-42195-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
McDuff and Salamon, Introduction to Symplectic Topology 3, Oxford University Press, 2017 (978-0-19-879490-5).
MATH 6710 - Probability Theory I // fall 2020
Durrett, Rick, Probability: Theory and Examples 5, Cambridge University Press, 2019 (978-1-108-47368-2) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6720 - Probability Theory II // spring 2020
Durrett, Richard, Probability: Theory and Examples, Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Edition: 5; ISBN: 978-1-108-47368-2) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6740 - Mathematical Statistics II // fall 2020
Korostelev and Korosteleva, Mathematical Statistics: Asymptotic Minimax Theory, American Mathematical Society, 2011 (978-0-8218-5283-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6830 - Model Theory // spring 2020
Marker, David, Model Theory: An Introduction, Springer, 2002 (ISBN: 0-387-98760-6) — free e-book through the Cornell Math Library
MATH 6870 - Set Theory // fall 2020
Kechris, Alexander, Classical Descriptive Set Theory, Springer, 1995 (978-0-387-94374-9) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 7150 - Fourier Analysis // fall 2020
Muscalu and Schlag, Classical and multilinear harmonic analysis, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (978-0-521-88245-3) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Muscalu and Schlag, Classical and multilinear harmonic analysis, volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (978-1-107-03182-1) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 7280 - Topics in Dynamical Systems // spring 2020
Bender and Orszag, Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Springer, 1999 (ISBN: 978-0-387-98931-0) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
MATH 7610 - Topics in Geometry: Complex Geometry // fall 2020
Demailly, Jean-Pierre, Complex Analytic and Differential Geometry, 2012.
MATH 7670 - Topics in Algebraic Geometry // fall 2020
Hartshorne, Robin, Deformation Theory, Springer, 2010 (978-1-4419-1595-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library
Sernesi, Edoardo, Deformations of Algebraic Schemes, Springer, 2006 (978-3-540-30608-5) — free electronic access provided by the Cornell Math Library