Recommendation for Maths Books

Hello everyone,

This is my first note at brilliant ,

I'm writing this note to know about a few but Good books on the following topics , (please Note that im a beginner) :-

(1) Number theory , (2) Plane Geometry ,

Also please recommend some books for preparation of JMO & RMO.

Please do comment & help.! Thank You ..!

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Remember to wrap math in `$` ... `$` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$

Comments

Firstly, Physics and Mathematics are two very interestingly deadly subjects. Once you loose grip of them, you almost loose that forever. I'll recommend some books for now, trying solving each and every problem from them. Don't do the mistake that I did, i.e. completely leaving one subject for the sake of another.

Geometry:

Coxeter
SL Loney Trigonometry (Problems only)
Titu Andreescu books
Math Olympiad Journals

Algebra:

Hall and Knight Higher Algebra is more than enough
Brilliant wikis for Classical Inequalities

Number Theory:

Brilliant wikis
Burton Number Theory

Physics:

HC Verma
IE Irodov
Cengage for Electromagnetism
DC Pandey for Mechanics
Halliday Resnick Walker for Fundamental Concepts.

General Olympiad books:

Challenge and Thrill of Pre College Mathematics
INMO book by Rajeev Manocha
InPhO book by Arihant
Physics today and Mathematics today are a set of must buy for gaining excellence in Olympiads.

Books like RD Sharma and NCERT are not at all Olympiad Mathematics. A Olympiad student can do their problems even while watching CID. So start from my recommended books and gain excellence.

Hope that helps.

Warning: Calculus is famously stated as a math olympian's nightmare. Do study Calculus from Arihant JEE books.Best of luck!

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

And atlast when the physics master steps in, the others are keft astounded. #claps #whistles (+1)

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

$\text {Thank You Very Much !!!}$ , You have provided me with enough choices , I hope a few from them would work for me , because if I get too much of them, then confusion wouldn't let Me study.....! Btw I have the basic PCM resources for JEE, thanks for ur recommendation, Btw based on your experience , what would you suggest , shall I take one - two books or study all of them? One more question, are the titu andrescuu, math olympiad journals , & coxeter available in the market? Or I have to order them online? Thanking you once again for all your help!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

I personally do not possess the hard copy versions of the books, rather I have downloaded PDFs. Physics books can be ordered online, so you do not need to worry about them.

It depends on you on the basis of your speed and urge of preparations, how many books do you want to buy at once. I have all the books as PDFs or hardcopies, and I don't find anything confusing me, to be very honest. Central to Mathematics and Physics is problem solving, so as many problems, that much of practice. If you want to get limited to some problems, atmost 5 books from the list may do. But I find myself comfortable with doing atleast 100 types of questions from a single topic, because that's fun.

Be free to ask me further questions, always ready to help :)

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

@Swapnil Das – Thank you very much, for your motivation,I got it, aren't you in 11th this year? You'll be too giving olympiads I think?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – I'm in 10th. Yes,I'll be giving Olympiads this year.

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

@Swapnil Das – Ok then, you are really a physics champion! $\text {All the Best}$ for all the competitions ! Thank you very much for your help!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Thanks for your compliment. All the very best to you too. Glad to help :)

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

@Swapnil Das – Are you in Fiitjee Delhi?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Nah, I am from Odisha.

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

@Swapnil Das – Your in 10th??????

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

Recommended complete few books properly. After being thorough with it go to another set. Thats what I am going to follow throughout the whole year.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Thank you very much buddy, thats what I thought too! :):)

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

How was Phase test ?

Rajdeep Dhingra - 5 years ago

Completely messed up. The entire test was a nightmare for me. How was yours?

Swapnil Das - 5 years ago

@Swapnil Das – Mine was cool except for SST.

Rajdeep Dhingra - 5 years ago

Sorry for late reply ... Elementary. NT by D.Burton.

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

Thank you very much !, is it available as a hard copy in market?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

Oh yeah , are you interested in physics :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Yes I enjoy physics too much. I am also preparing for maths & physics olympiad this year.! Can you suggest me some resources /books?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – @Rajdeep Dhingra @Swapnil Das Can guide you better than me ....For physics try HCV and irodov... i do not have experience with Olympiads ...but try those 2 books...

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Thank you very much buddy, I am solving Hcv as of now & have heard about irodov its a pretty tough book, in which class u are?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – I just stepped into 11th. ... wbu ?

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Me too! Classes will start from 1st July, I have joined an IIT coaching here in Mathura , & you?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – What can be the good books for KVS JMO & RMO ? @Rajdeep Dhingra , @Swapnil Das , plz help, thank you.

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – HC verma suits well for physics, RC Mukerjee for Chemistry.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Hey buddy, thnx for ur suggestion , I love problems of rcm , I just don't know any books to prepare for Jmo & Rmo , Their course are a bit different!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Rmo? Yeah for all competitive exams one set of books do really well:- NCERT

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Yup ur absolutely right , geometry from 8 ,9, & 10th Ncert would be good , but to prepare Number theory & combinatorics & higher geometry , I think I need to refer some good books , as of now I have none!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Yeah, get nice books but publishers too count. Best recommended are Goyal brothers.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Ok got it , if u can give the details for Olympiad book, then it would be very nice of u, inform me please whenever you have the chance. Thanks for helping.!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Sure. Another book for geometry:- Geometry Revisited.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Yup I liked that book , Deeparaj bhaiya suggested that to me , awesome book ! I think that now I have enough choices to choose books, thnx for ur help buddy, really man!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Math , My Olympiad Math isn't very good. Also math can't be learned. It can only be practised. Try solving Past papers and other countries national papers.

Rajdeep Dhingra - 5 years ago

@Rajdeep Dhingra – Thank you very much for your suggestion , I will solve some papers definitely.!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Which class are you in Rishabh ?

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – I have also stepped in 11th class.!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Thanks for your help @Chinmay Sangawadekar !

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – I have some very old JEE books for subjective. They are equivalent to Olympiad Level. You can try the Irodov Theory books.

Rajdeep Dhingra - 5 years ago

For elecro-magnetism - Edward M Purcell - Electricity and Magnetism, Griffiths,Jakson, I.E irodov(theory book)

Mechanics - Classical mechanics by david morin , Kleppner mechanics, I.E irodov(theory book)

Ray Optics and others - HC Verma , Halliday Resnik

Alzebra - Bernard and child, Hall and knight alzebra

Calculus - Tarasov calculus , I.A Maron calculus

Trignometry and Geometry - S.L Loney is the best

Questions in Physics - I.E irodov, Krotov.

Acc. to me , the best book for physics is -: Lewis-Carroll-Epstein-Thinking-Physics-Practical-Lessons-in-Critical-Thinking-Insight-Press-2002

Akash Shukla - 5 years ago

Thank you so much! Now I have sufficient choices for physics!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Ashish Siva

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Akshat Sharda

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Deeparaj Bhat

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

For plane geometry, these books are quite good:

The first book covers pure geometry and the second covers trigonometry (which is useful in pure geometry problems many times).

The third book deals with solving geometry probpems via complex numbers.

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

Thank you very much brother!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – No problem.

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – I tried downloading them , but it always fails.! Can you help me? Plz send it at my email rishu0818@gmail.com ! Thnx for ur help!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Ok. I've sent the mail. As of now it's in the outbox. I'll update you as soon as it is sent.

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – Thank you :)

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Ok. They've been sent. See if you're able to view them and update me. :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 5 years ago

@A Former Brilliant Member – They are all very nice books, I have received them , thank you for your help brother😃!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Chinmay Sangawadekar

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Krishna Ar

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

Try Challenge and Thrill of Pre-College Mathematics by C R Pranesachar and V Krishnamurthy ...its one of the recommended books for rmo...the geometry section in the book is the best....

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Morgan Harvey - 1 year, 2 months ago

Yo, one book which is best for all these things :- ★RD Sharma★

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

For which class plz?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

11th

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – It contains number theory too? I didn't knew that , well thank you very much Ashish for ur help.!

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Haha number theory too, I leatn from it.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Is it a competition book or usual based on ncert type?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – It ia both. Beat recommwnded book for all 11th and 12th graders. Those who arw through with this can surely do well in IIT JEE.

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Thank you very much buddy .! I will definitely use that book! Thnx once again !

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – (^。^)

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

@Ashish Menon – Whats this?

Rishabh Tiwari - 5 years ago

@Rishabh Tiwari – Happy face ʕ•ٹ•ʔ

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$