Re: No O Reilly Mathematica Cookbook
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- Subject: [mg74565] Re: No O Reilly Mathematica Cookbook
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:09:07 -0500 (EST)
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siewsk at bp.com wrote: > Everyone, > > I feel stupid posting what is basically newbie questions on > comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica. > > So I decided to purchase a O'Reilly Mathematica Cookbook. > > To my big surprise, there is none. > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/store/series/cookbooks.csp > > > Shouldn't there is a Cookbook for Mathematica to stop people from > asking the same questions over and over again? > > I think the 'problem' is that Mathematica is so powerful that everyone has a different newbie question! Also, a lot of newbie questions boil down to omitting a comma, using the wrong kind of brackets, using an underscore in a variable name - things that would be very hard to index in a book because by definition, the user does not know that is what his problem is! Experimenting with some of the examples from the Mathematica book is the best way to learn. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk