Download Free Mathematics Books by Knapp
From this page anyone can download free PDF files of "digital
second editions" of the four books of mine whose first editions were
published in the Cornerstones series of Birkhäuser Boston between 2005
and 2007. These books are at the first-year graduate level or a
little higher, depending on one's university. All four
are
available for download now:
- Basic Algebra
- Advanced Algebra
- Basic Real Analysis, with an appendix "Elementary Complex
Analysis"
- Advanced Real Analysis.
The files of the books are being made available as a gift to the
mathematics community worldwide. The files are limited to
noncommercial use for purposes of education, scholarship, and
research. Pages of the files may be freely stored electronically,
freely accessed, freely copied, and freely transmitted. A few
specific conditions on electronic use are imposed to maintain the
noncommercial nature of the files and ensure the integrity of the
individual pages, including that no one is ever charged a fee for the
acquiring or looking at the files and that the files are not translated
into any other computer format (e.g., EPUB). The specific
conditions are spelled out on a
separate webpage, and a copy of them appears on page iv (the fourth
page of the front matter) of the PDF file of each book. Please adhere to these conditions.
The books were typeset by Textures using AMS-TeX, and the figures were
drawn in Mathematica. Anyone who wants to know how a display was
coded in AMS-TeX or a figure was drawn in Mathematica is invited to
send the author an email and ask, rather than try to dissect the PDF
files. Most of each book is available in PDF/X compliant format
on request.
Printing of the files is constrained
legally. The reason is that Springer Science+Business
Media, Inc. has a stake in
printed copies of these books, as is explained in the brief history
below, and Springer's permission may be required for printing.
For a discussion of these legal considerations, click here.
Brief History
The author (Anthony W. Knapp) and the publisher (Birkhäuser Boston,
Inc.) signed two contracts dated March 19 and 20, 2003, one for a book
in real analysis and one for a book in algebra. Under these
contracts the author retained copyright but granted to the publisher a
license for the "full and exclusive rights covered under the copyright
of the Work and all revisions thereof .... ." The contracts
specifically stated, "The rights granted and assigned to the Publisher
are limited to those rights concerning print media."
For marketing purposes, each of the books was later subdivided into two
smaller books, Basic and Advanced, which were printed
separately. The two real analysis books appeared in print in
2005, and the two algebra books appeared in print in 2006 and
2007. No decision was made at that time concerning electronic
publication. Nevertheless, some companies and individuals took it
upon themselves to publish and sell electronic versions of some or all
of the books without permission; some of these electronic versions were
of poor quality.
Birkhäuser, a Swiss company, had been a member of the Springer group
since 1985. About 2010, Springer underwent some kind of
reorganization, the Boston office of Birkhäuser was closed, and the
operations of the Birkhäuser Boston office were consolidated into the
New York office of Springer. The contracts remained in force but
with Springer Science+Business Media Inc. as publisher rather than
Birkhäuser. Thus Springer
as of 2016 had "full and exclusive rights covered under the copyright
of the Work" concerning print media, for both the original editions and
the current revisions.
Before 2016 the author never authorized anyone to publish any of the
books in
any form other than print media. As of January 2016 he is giving
a general
authorization concerning PDF files of the books, and he is hoping that
people will not be tempted to degrade the quality of the files by
translating them into other formats.
Front Matter of Each Book
Some people may prefer to know something about one or another book
before downloading the entire book. For that reason, links are
provided here for downloading the front matter for each book. In
each case this includes page iv (the copyright page), the table of
contents, the preface for the second edition, the preface for the first
edition, and some other items. The preface for the second edition
tells what the new features are for each book. It is not
necessary to download the front matter if one is going to download the
entire book from a link below.
Download
Digital Second Editions
For each book the inside is available as a
single PDF file, and the front cover is available as a JPG file.
Also the front cover and the inside are available together as a single
PDF file.
The inside pages are black and white only. The printed area of
the inside pages is 28 picas wide and 43 picas high. It is
centered left to right, so that if two printed pages on pages of size
8.5 inches by 11 inches are held up back to back, then their printed
areas will coincide. The size of the front cover is 6 inches by
9.5 inches and the placement of the cover in the PDF files is
consistent with the printing on the inside pages. Thumbnails of
the front covers appear below.
Basic Algebra, Digital Second Edition, available here
Download inside (front
matter, text, and back matter) as PDF, 9 MB
Download front cover as JPG,
488 KB
Download front cover and
inside together as PDF, 9.5 MB
List of corrections
as of 2/15/2016
Advanced Algebra, Digital Second Edition, available here
Download inside (front
matter, text, and back matter) as PDF, 10 MB
Download front cover as JPG,
440 KB
Download front cover and
inside together as PDF, 10.3 MB
Basic Real Analysis, with an appendix "Elementary Complex
Analysis," Digital Second Edition, available here
Download inside
(front
matter, text, and back matter) as PDF, 9.9 MB
Download front cover as
JPG,
440 KB
Download front cover
and
inside together as PDF, 10.3 MB
List of corrections
as of 10/27/2017
Advanced Real Analysis, Digital Second Edition, Corrected
Version 2017, available here
Download inside
(front
matter, text, and back matter) as PDF, 8.0 MB
Download front cover as
JPG,
540 KB
Download front
cover
and
inside together as PDF, 8.5 MB
Last modified: 10/27/2017
