Mir Publications

textbooks

russian

An archive of Mir Publications textbooks.

Author

Apurva Nakade

Published

September 10, 2024

I loathe American textbooks from the bottom of my heart. I learned math from these tiny 100 page books that made the point directly and succinctly and trusted the reader’s intelligence to figure out the rest. Textbooks here seem to be written for people who are incapable of thinking for themselves.

The Mir Publishers emblem: a four-pointed star over a globe inside a red oval, ringed by the Russian words for Mir Publishing House.

The Mir Publishers emblem (public domain)

To be great surprise I discovered this website containing MIR publication books:

https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

The first book listed (at least for me) is Irodov’s Physics, every engineering student’s nightmare and yet one of the best books to learn physics from. I hope younger students find these and I myself am looking forward to reading some of the old gems and finding some new ones.

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