FREE Resources

Here you’ll find all sorts of FREE educational stuff for any age. Enjoy!

Do you have ideas where to find more? Leave a comment here, write me an email at scientiaportal@gmail.com or drop me a line on Twitter (@Neuronicus) or Facebook (Scientia Portal).

GENERAL:

1. FREE online courses at EdX

ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS:

1. The Feynman Lectures
2. Hawking, S. (1966). Properties of expanding universes (doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11283 FULLTEXT PDF original grayscale | FULLTEXT PDF color
3. NASA Eyes Eclipse 2017 Web Application

PHYSICS

1. Good repository for teaching physics and various other stuff, some really, REALLY cool: http://mertzimekis.gr/home/go/1780

METEOROLOGY/CLIMATOLOGY

1. Game: https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/c-roads/. You can download it or play on online. Read additional info here:  https://www.climateinteractive.org/programs/world-climate/. It’s a good simulation game made by MIT affiliates about climate change, providing information about how this happens. Get climate change skeptics to play it. Good for playing as college or high-school assignments.

MATHEMATICS:

1. Best EASY Calculus Book ever, seriously: Thompson, Silvanus P. (1914, 2^nd Ed.). Calculus Made Easy: Being a very simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus. The Macmillan & Co., New York. (292 pages). FULLTEXT PDF         

STATISTICS:

1. James G, Witten D, Hastie T., & Tibshirani R. (EDs) (2017, 8^th Ed). An Introduction to Statistical Learning (with applications in R). 440 pages. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-7138-7 (eBook), DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7138-7.  FULLTEXT PDF
2. Hastie T, Tibshirani R, & Friedman  J. (2017, 12^th Ed.) The Elements of Statistical Learning (Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction). 764 pages. Springer. FULLTEXT PDF

OTHER:

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