Re: Anyone know of a book on Mathematica suitable for 16-18year old?
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- Subject: [mg116127] Re: Anyone know of a book on Mathematica suitable for 16-18year old?
- From: David Kirkby <drkirkby at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 05:27:50 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 1, 11:52 am, Tomas Garza <tgarz... at msn.com> wrote: > Perhaps the book by Shaw and Tigg, Applied Mathematica, Getting it Starte= d, Geting it Done, Addison Wesley, 1994, could also be helpful, even though= it is pre-Version 6 and so there are no interactive features. > - Tomas > > > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:23:08 -0500 > > From: Barrie.Sto... at newcastle.edu.au > > Subject: Re: Anyone know of a book on Mathematica suitable for 16-18= year old? > > To: mathgr... at smc.vnet.net > > > Hi Dave > > > Maybe the calculus book by Stan Wagon (http://www.wolfram.com/books/pro= file.cgi?id=2968) would be doubly appropriate? > > > I still think Exploring Mathematics with Mathematica (http://library.wo= lfram.com/infocenter/Books/3525/) is terrific. > > > Cheers > > > Barrie Thank you Barrie. I'll get a couple of copies - one for her and one for me, so if she asks me something, she can tell me the page and I can know what she is referring to, as I live a long way from her. It's funny, I can buy used copies on Amazon for $1.50 or in the UK =A328, which is about $50. I think Amazon charge about $6 for international shipping on books, so its a bit of a no brainer. I'll buy a couple of copies from the USA, do my bit to increase the C02 emmisions by shipping a book across the Atlantic. I would have preffered a more modern book, but perhaps a combination of an old one and a new one will be of help. Dave