Re: Re: Book or Manual for 6?
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- Subject: [mg78317] Re: [mg78276] Re: Book or Manual for 6?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Although I agree fundamentally with everything that David says about how to learn Mathematica (and other things as well), there are still three issues, the third of which some other poster mentioned: (1) Still, there are occasions when I want no electronic impediment whatsoever and just want to look at a book. Clearly some thing are best learned with the live system, but there are others for which a clear exposition, with good examples and in a coherent underlying conceptual structure, suffices. (2) As a university teacher for over 40 years, the longer I teach the more I realize how very different learning styles can be. So a multiplicity of learning modes and materials is warranted. (2) Perhaps it's not so much a printed book per se that I, and some others, miss, but rather the quasi-linear (and spirally structured) path through Mathematica provided by "The Mathematica Book". Just because the system itself may be a web does not preclude an author from creating a more-or-less linear path through (part of) it. David Park wrote: > > As to the lack of a hard copy book: I don't think that a static book is the > way to learn Mathematica. ... Hard copy books are truly inadequate for learning the > new Mathematica. That is probably why there was little effort to produce > such a book.... -- 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: Book or Manual for 6?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark@comcast.net>
- Re: Book or Manual for 6?