> (textbooks are usually outrageously priced in the U.S.)
When it comes to textbooks, with a few exceptions, math textbooks are a lot cheaper than other technical fields.
Maybe not the ones your university is requiring for introductory courses (e.g. Stewart's calculus), but there are plenty of cheap, equally good calculus textbooks out there.
The main exceptions are Springer-Verlag text books. And even some of those are not too expensive. I'm looking at one of my analysis text books - it's $36. My grad level abstract algebra textbook is $47 (also Springer).
Almost everything by Dover is cheap, and many of them are excellent books.
In general, if your goal is to learn, and are not required to buy for a class, math textbooks can be had for relatively cheap new, and fairly cheap used.
Sorry, coming from an engineering background, everything in mathematics looks very affordable. Occupational hazard :-)
When it comes to textbooks, with a few exceptions, math textbooks are a lot cheaper than other technical fields.
Maybe not the ones your university is requiring for introductory courses (e.g. Stewart's calculus), but there are plenty of cheap, equally good calculus textbooks out there.
The main exceptions are Springer-Verlag text books. And even some of those are not too expensive. I'm looking at one of my analysis text books - it's $36. My grad level abstract algebra textbook is $47 (also Springer).
Almost everything by Dover is cheap, and many of them are excellent books.
In general, if your goal is to learn, and are not required to buy for a class, math textbooks can be had for relatively cheap new, and fairly cheap used.
Sorry, coming from an engineering background, everything in mathematics looks very affordable. Occupational hazard :-)