Re: Mathematica 8 & reports / books
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- Subject: [mg114984] Re: Mathematica 8 & reports / books
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:02:01 -0500 (EST)
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However, "Mathematica Navigator" is not a good buy for Mathematica 8: it was written for Mathematica 6 (with what would seem like last-minute add-ons to bring things up-to-date for Mathematica 7). And it explicitly warns, "Because version 6 differs so much from earlier versions, this book cannot practically be used with older versions...." That's from the 2009 Third Edition; is there a newer one? Also, what the section "Acknowledgments" near the end of the Preface says about producing the book from Mathematica is minimal: each chapter was a separate notebook; the notebooks were joined by the Authortools package; and the index (and the HelpBrowser version of the book) were generated also using AuthorTools. Moreover, so far as I can tell, the AuthorTools package no longer works with Mathematica 8. At least when I try to create a new project after specifying its name, target directory, and selected files in the target directory, I keep getting an error message (which is truncated in the error window that opens). On 12/25/2010 2:34 AM, AES wrote: > In article<if1o2q$p54$1 at smc.vnet.net>, per at RQNNE.invalid (Per R=F8nne) > wrote: > >> I plan to purchase Mathematica 8 Student's Edition when I begin at study >> of astronomy and physics at The University of Copenhagen September 2011. >> At present I own Mathematica 5.1 Teacher's Edition [I'm a Sixth Form >> College teacher with a master degree in computer science and English]. > > For a Scandinavian view on this query, buy Heikki Ruskeepaa's > "Mathematica Navigator" (a good purchase in any case), and read the > section in the Preface where he describes how he produced this book > directly from Mathematica (sort of . . . ) -- 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
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- Re: Mathematica 8 & reports / books
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