Comment by gus_massa
15 hours ago
No idea about statistics, but in most physict courses in my university, they recomend 3 books:
1) The main book, that has a complete explanation and is well ordered. It's for learning.
2) Tha Landau book, that is super short and hard. It's only to check you didn't miss any important formula or topic.
3) There Feynman book, that is anassorted colection of fairytales for physicist. It's a pleasure to read it but you must already read 1 to understand it.
4) The Shaum book, that is almost a colection of exercices. Some people hate it. Some people love it. I like it as a companion to theother books.
I guess you are complaining that 1 is boring and want to write 3. It's a good idea, but it's harder than expected.
Similar to an old idea I had about how every programming language needs three books:
1. Basic introduction.
2. Reference tome, which has absolutely everything.
3. Cookbook with style advice for the more advanced student, which assumes you've read 1 and can look up various details in 2.
These days, 2 would be a wiki and 1 would likely be a bunch of pages on that wiki, but it's still good if you have someone sit down and write 3.
I think you're describing the the Diátaxis framework [1], which would further split your (1) into fully guided tutorials and discursive explanations.
[1]: https://diataxis.fr/
Back in my day, the 3 books for programmers were Knuth vol 1, Knuth vol 2, and Knuth vol 3. ;)
Most german speakers will look back at the 2000 pages of "Java ist auch eine Insel" in terror, but it was actually all three books in one.