Foam's outlines
Schaum's Outlines are originally a US-American series of books for school and university or self-study from McGraw-Hill Verlag (McGraw Hill Education) intended to supplement textbooks (exercise collection, test preparation, revision course ). They deal with a wide variety of topics and are characterized by graphic preparation, clear compilations, numerous examples and exercises with solutions.
They were founded in New York City in the 1930s by David Schaum, who immigrated from Eastern Europe, and published by Schaum Publishing. In 1967 they were taken over by McGraw-Hill.
In the USA they are also popular because of their low cost, for example at community colleges, and are widely used there. The volumes are continuously updated and adapted to new teaching requirements.
They are available on a wide variety of topics from mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, languages (grammar, vocabulary), computer science, finance and accounting, medicine, computer science. The authors of many of the outlines in the math area were Murray R. Spiegel , Frank Ayres Jr., and Seymour Lipschutz .
The title used to contain Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of .. , later only Schaum's Outlines . There were also earlier German translations of the series.
The publisher publishes shorter summaries of the sometimes quite extensive Outline volumes in the Easy Outlines series .
Competitors include Barron's Educational Series , which has existed since 1939 and has series such as Made Easy or 1001 Pitfalls . McGraw Hill also has the Demystified range.
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Individual evidence
- ^ McGraw-Hill, in: International Directory of Company Histories, Thomson Gale 2006