Re: any good tutorials?
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- Subject: [mg41460] Re: any good tutorials?
- From: "DIAMOND Mark R." <dot at dot.dot>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 07:58:23 -0400 (EDT)
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My preference is for Author Gaylord, Richard J Title Introduction to programming with Mathematica / Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin Published Santa Clara, CA : TELOS, 1996 Edition 2nd ed which I think is considerably easier to read and better organized than the Shaw and Tigg book. I am fussy about typography which, I think, makes a great deal of difference to how easy (or not) a book is to read. The TELOS series are all beautifully presented. I bought the two books in the same week when I first started to use Mathematica, read them "together", and eventually let the Shaw book slide. On the other hand, some kinds of coverage for specific problems is handled much better in the Shaw book, and I still go back to it whenever I need to tinker with 2-D Fourier transforms. Cheers, Mark -- Mark R. Diamond