Re: Computer Science with Mathematica Book
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- Subject: [mg28691] Re: Computer Science with Mathematica Book
- From: Alois Steindl <Alois.Steindl+e325 at tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:54:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Inst. f. Mechanics II, TU Vienna
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"David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> writes: > Dear MathGroup, > > I bought Roman Maeder's "Computer Science with Mathematica" book. The book > claims that you can download software for the extensive code that is in the > book and gives a web site. However, after spending extensive time, giving a > lot personal information, and obtaining an access code I find that it is > still not possible to download the code. > > Those who buy the book should not expect that it is very easy, and maybe not > possible at all, to download any packages and notebooks that go with the > book. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ Hello, have you ever tried to contact the author? Maybe the problem is with your setup, who knows? I wouldn't expect a scientific book to be very easy, except when it reads something like "Computer Science for Dummies". There is always a tradeoff between Easyness and content. Good luck Alois