Plato's Academy of Mathematica: Soapbox warning!
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- Subject: [mg23121] Plato's Academy of Mathematica: Soapbox warning!
- From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel at ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:30:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear Steve, rather than present my views on why Mathematica is or is not intuitive, or powerful, or frustrating, or (choose your favorite Mathematica quality here), let me take the pragmatic approach to point you to one book which has been extremely useful to me in my path to learning Mathematica: David Wagner's "Power Programming with Mathematica: The Kernel". Once I landed my eyes on that book my understanding of things such as manipulating lists grew considerably. Wagner (no, not David)
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- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil>
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