<p>My intended major is math.
I haven't applied to Princeton.
But I know Princeton's math department is amazing.</p>
<p>So I wonder where can I find what textbooks does Princeton use?</p>
<p>You should be able to find them in most course syllabuses. I don't think you can get those unless you have a Pton blackboard account, though.</p>
<p>Is Lang Wang still running the Princeton Store for textbooks? If so, could someone post a link to it? I tried looking for it online, thinking the OP could find books listed there, but the page I came up with didn't have any info listed.</p>
<p>The Princeton Store's been taken over by Labyrinth Books. Do not shop there for anything, though, they're massively overpriced.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, Qwertulen. galoisj, once the Spring term starts you should be able to search here for textbook info: Labyrinth</a> Books</p>
<p>This isn't from Princeton specifically, which I don't think is incredibly important, but here are a bunch of suggestions from someone who did math at UChicago (another great math school):</p>
<p>Chicago</a> undergraduate mathematics bibliography</p>
<p>I don't know what level you're at, but some (unsolicited) suggestions:</p>
<p>Spivak or Apostol for calculus that's more theoretical and rigorous than, say, AP or most first year college calc classes. They're both at a sort of advanced-but-accessible level suitable for people who haven't seen calc before, though it might be helpful to be familiar with the basic mechanical/computational aspects before trying them.</p>
<p>Both also have excellent introductions to basic properties of numbers and other pre-calc topics from a rigorous axiomatic standpoint. Apostol includes multivariate calc and linear algebra in the 2nd volume, Spivak is single-variable only. Both have excellent problems and are a joy to read and work through. I prefer Spivak myself, then Apostol vol 2 for the other stuff. YMMV.</p>
<p>For higher-level stuff many of the books have become classics of sorts--Rudin for Analysis, Dummit and Foote for modern algebra, Apostol and/or Hardy and Wright for elementary and some analytic number theory, Ahlfors for complex analysis, Munkres for topology, etc.</p>
<p>The Dover books in mathematics are often cheap, good reads, and great for self-study. Very manageable, as math books go.</p>
<p>you could try Dept./Program</a> - Office of Registrar, selecting MAT, and looking at the sample reading lists.</p>
<p>Thanks very much,bagpiper and quirkily
helpful replies</p>
<p>Actually, many of the Dover books suck with the exception or two. </p>
<p>Spivak covers all the multivariable calculus you'll need ever in Calculus on Manifolds. </p>
<p>Jacobson a better algebra book than Dummit&foote. </p>
<p>Apostol I have, but I rarely touch it. Rudin/Spivak are almost always better choices. Spivak isn't such a great place to encounter k-forms for the first time, and one without any background might prefer working their way up from 2D to arbitrary dimension, as the examples are a lot neater and there's lots of geometric intuition. Pick up a copy of Flander's Differential Forms--it's classical DG, but very readable. </p>
<p>Jacobson has a book solely on linear algebra which is of course outstanding, it's much cheaper than Basic Algebra I/II as well, so pick up a copy of the 3 volume Lectures set. Horn and Johnson's Matrix Theory is an interesting read and reference and gets right into computations and all that.</p>
<p>Milnor is essential math reading, simply as an example of exquisite math writing. It's cheap, so pick up Topology from the Differential Viewpoint if not Morse Theory.</p>
<p>VI Arnold is an outstanding geometric ODE book, an enjoyable read.</p>
<p>However, don't Harvard math students already know most of this stuff prior to entrance and all of that, usually? D:</p>