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Re: Re: Any Mathematica 6 book yet?

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• Subject: [mg81462] Re: [mg81445] Re: Any Mathematica 6 book yet?
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:18:09 -0400 (EDT)
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On 24 Sep 2007, at 10:15, Vince Virgilio wrote:

> On Sep 23, 4:40 am, Andrzej Kozlowski <a... at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
>> On 22 Sep 2007, at 16:26, AES wrote:
>>
>>> Has any general-purpose, moderately detailed, high quality  
>>> handbook /
>>> textbook / reference book on Mathematica 6 for a general audience of
>>> Mathematica users -- one that's written for Mathematica 6 from the
>>> ground up, not just hastily converted from some older Mathematica  
>>> 5.2
>>> edition -- appeared *yet*?
>>
>>> {And given what I suspect the answer is, why the h-ll not?!?]
>>
>> Maybe because the only people who could write such a book at this
>> time are busy with something else. Like working on Mathematica 6.1.
>>
>> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
> "Mathematica X.x" is as much the documentation as it is the
> implementation.
>
> Vince Virgilio
>
>

Yes but "documentation" and a "book" are very different things. I  
think this in fact was the main point of the O.P.

Andrzej Kozlowski

• References:
  • Any Mathematica 6 book yet?
    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
  • Re: Any Mathematica 6 book yet?
    • From: Vince Virgilio <blueschi@gmail.com>