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Texts for Autodidacts?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday October 21, 2001 @08:23PM from the reading-up-on-LOTS-of-subjects dept.

RestiffBard asks: "I'm in a bit of a learning slump and was wondering what books or websites Slashdot readers would recommend for learning anything. I'm looking more for general starter texts on physics, math, chemistry, electronics, etc. I'm not too interested in computer texts as I have that mostly down now. I'm more interested in the sciences that I've neglected in the last few years."

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Asimov! by sysadmn · 2001-10-22 01:18 · Score: 2, Informative

Anything written by Isaac Asimov. The physics will be a bit dated, but the chemistry and engineering haven't changed as much. And the history of science hasn't changed at all :-) Even his guide to the Bible and the Homeric epics are good intros to those periods of history. I'm not to sure about that psychohistory stuff - check again in about 3000 years.

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Mathematics by sohp · 2001-10-22 01:48 · Score: 2, Informative
Here are a couple of sites I have in my bookmarks for learning about math.
- The math archives WWW Server at the University of Tennessee
- Are You Ready? quizzes to help you assess your ability and progress
Hope this helps!
Project Gutenberg by PhilHibbs · 2001-10-22 03:00 · Score: 3, Informative

http://promo.net/pg/
Useful for older texts, so no cutting-edge genetics or nanotech here, but this collection would round off your education in general, especially the classics if you're that way inclined.