Jump to Page Mathematica Book
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- Subject: [mg90155] Jump to Page Mathematica Book
- From: "Hobbs, Sylvia (DPH)" <Sylvia.Hobbs at state.ma.us>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Mathematica can celebrate its 20th anniversary by heeding Van Halen's recommendation to, "Go ahead, jump. Get it and jump." Instead of hardcopy Mathematica Book, I would prefer an online-browsable-indexed-jump-to-page version like the current online version of A New Kind of Science. http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html) Even though I have three different autographs of Stephen Wolfram in my NKS hardcopy, I more frequently use the electronic text on my Pocket PC in the library. Sylvia Hobbs > -----Original Message----- > From: mathgroup-adm at smc.vnet.net [mailto:mathgroup-adm at smc.vnet.net] On Behalf > Of Murray Eisenberg > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:52 AM > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg90129] Re: [mg90104] Re: [mg90051] Re: [mg89996] Re: Happy Birthday > Mathematica! > > Fair enough! > > Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > I certianly have no objection to the existence of a printed version of > > "The Mathematica Book", even if it is 11000 pages long. What is > > important to me (since I definitely have no use for such a > > monstrosity) is that I should not be required to subsidize other > > people's preferences in this respect. I may of course be wrong, but > > judging by the posts in the MathGroup, I doubt many people would wish > > to pay for such a book (it certainly won't be free) if they had a > > choice. In view of that, I don't think it would be a very wise of WRI > > to print a large number of copies and hope that enough buyers will > > be found later. The only sensible approach would be to allow those who > > want a printed copy to custom order it, and pay for the full cost of > > printing, binding and sending themselves. Given that an electronic > > version already exists I can see no great problems in making suitable > > arrangements right away; in fact WRI could even sell license the right > > to print "The Mathematica Book" on demand basis to Kinko's. This seems > > to me an ideal solution to which I can't see how anyone could object. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305