PlanetMath Outline Series Preview

[holtzermann17]

This might go someplace on the Books project roadmap, see #37.

The outline of outlines is as follows:

1. Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus, Second Edition
2. Schaum's Easy Outline of College Algebra, Second Edition
3. Schaum's Easy Outline of College Mathematics, Revised Edition
4. Schaum's Easy Outline of Elementary Algebra, Second Edition
5. Schaum's Easy Outline of Geometry, Second Edition
6. Schaum's Easy Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, Revised Edition
7. Schaum's Easy Outline of Probability and Statistics, Revised Edition
8. Schaum's Easy Outline of Programming with Java
9. Schaum's Easy Outline of Statistics, Second Edition
10. Schaum's Outline of Abstract Algebra
11. Schaum's Outline of Advanced Calculus, Third Edition
12. Schaum's Outline of Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists
13. Schaum's Outline of Astronomy
14. Schaum's Outline of Basic Business Mathematics, 2ed
15. Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity, Second Edition
16. Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics for Electricity and Electronics
17. Schaum's Outline of Basic Mathematics with Applications to Science and Technology, 2ed
18. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Calculus
19. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Finite Mathematics
20. Schaum's Outline of Beginning Statistics, Second Edition
21. Schaum's Outline of Bookkeeping and Accounting, Fourth Edition
22. Schaum's Outline of Calculus, 6th Edition
23. Schaum's Outline of College Algebra, Third Edition
24. Schaum's Outline of College Mathematics, Fourth Edition
25. Schaum's Outline of Computer Architecture
26. Schaum's Outline of Computer Networking
27. Schaum's Outline of Data Structures with Java, Second Edition
28. Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, 3rd edition
29. Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics, Revised Third Edition
30. Schaum's Outline of Electronic Devices and Circuits, Second Edition
31. Schaum's Outline of Elements of Statistics I: Descriptive Statistics and Probability
32. Schaum's Outline of Essential Computer Mathematics
33. Schaum's Outline of Financial Management, Third Edition
34. Schaum's Outline of Fundamentals of Relational Databases
35. Schaum's Outline of Geometry, 5th Edition
36. Schaum's Outline of HTML
37. Schaum's Outline of Immunology
38. Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra, Second Edition
39. Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Probability and Statistics
40. Schaum's Outline of Introduction to Psychology
41. Schaum's Outline of Introductory Surveying
42. Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics
43. Schaum's Outline of Logic, Second Edition
44. Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 4th Edition
45. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Liberal Arts Majors
46. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Nurses
47. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Physics Students
48. Schaum's Outline of Mathematics of Finance, Second Edition
49. Schaum's Outline of Matrix Operations
50. Schaum's Outline of Operating Systems
51. Schaum's Outline of Partial Differential Equations
52. Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science, Second Edition
53. Schaum's Outline of Precalculus, 3rd Edition
54. Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I, Fifth Edition
55. Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 4th Edition
56. Schaum's Outline of Probability, Second Edition
57. Schaum's Outline of Programming with C++
58. Schaum's Outline of Programming with Java
59. Schaum's Outline of Review of Elementary Mathematics, 2nd Edition
60. Schaum's Outline of Software Engineering
61. Schaum's Outline of Statistics
62. Schaum's Outline of Statistics for Engineers
63. Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics With Chemical Applications
64. Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic
65. Schaum's Outline of XML

[holtzermann17]

I didn't see "Schaum's Outline of Calculus of Finite Differences and Difference Equations" in the list above, so perhaps the current offerings on their website don't match the full back catalog.

[rspuzio]

As it so happens, that volume is one which I am quite
familiar with as I studied it in the eighth grade when I
was teaching myself calculus. I picked it up at a local
used bookstore, where I also found other math books.
I would be quite happy if PM could wind up serving a
similar role to that bookstore for eighth graders who
are interested in learning math.

As a rough measure of feature parity, let us consider
each section as equivalent to an encyclopaedia
entry. That particular value has 97 sections and 877
problems, 420 of which come with full solutions.

Assuming all the books are of roughly the same size,
that comes out to something like 6000 encyclopaedia
entries and 60000 problems with 20000 solutions. The
number of entries is something like half the number we
currently have; however, I think we would have to add
a few thousand entries to be really comparable, since
our coverage in most areas is spotty.

The quickest way to achieve this goal would be by
the books project since we can enter old textbooks which
cover the same material and have problems. In order
to get the solutions to the problems there in a reasonable
time, we will need to get to the point where we have 60
solutions per day coming in.

[holtzermann17]

(* 97 65) ;=> 6305
(* 877 65) ;=> 57005
(* 420 65) ;=> 27300

If we could recycle the encyclopedia, we'd be OK! -- we'd want to add about 5 problems per (current) encyclopedia article. That sounds like a lot of work, but an interesting project nonetheless.