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Re: Are these good books?

• To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
• Subject: Re: Are these good books?
• From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
• Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 13:47:08 EDT

>Has anyone found any of the following books to be useful for learning to be
>productive with Mathematica?  Are there others you would recommend?
[snip]
I haven't used any of the books you listed, but I did invest in Roman
Maeder's "Programming in Mathematica" (2nd ed.), which I really found
helpful.  I think a beginner could read it, but I suspect it would work
better for an intermediate level user.

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