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Title: CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Second Edition by Eric W. Weisstein ISBN: 1-58488-347-2 Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $119.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What an Amazing Reference!
Comment: I finally found a copy of this book available used, and I snapped it up. I'm absolutely thrilled with it. I'm a math and sciences hobbyist (and not a very advanced one) so I can't comment on accuracy. But the book leaves me with a wonderful way to start researching ideas I've read about in other books and papers.
Each entry in the book includes plenty of information, and almost all of them have references to other entries for related subjects. Many have references which include information about deeper papers or books about related subjects, so I can really do some reading!
I wish the volume included a dictionary of mathematical symbols. After that, my only complaints are minor. First, the book doesn't discuss any people. That is, it has strictly limited itself to mathematic concepts and doesn't have bibliographic entries for mathemeticians and scientists. Second, the book doesn't include pronunciation information.
Rating: 5
Summary: Boycott CRC - use the on-line version instead
Comment: I wish I had known about how evil and unethical the people at CRC are before I bought this book from .... You can read the sordid details on the web site for the book mathworld.wolfram.com. As for the book and CD, it is a great resource; I'll take the other reviewers' word for it not being as rigorous or complete as a professional mathematician would want -- most people who need a book like this are not professional matheticians (why would a professional mathetician even need any math encyclopedia anyway?).
Rating: 1
Summary: Excellent Content ... but Its also Available Free
Comment: I'm not giving this book 1 star because its a bad book! I'm giving this book 1 star because you shouldn't under any circumstances buy it (in my opinion of course).
The book is a compilation of the mathematical artices compiled by Weisstein over many years. It is the most complete collection of introductory mathematics you can imagine, with ever expanding detail, and contributions from a large number of different writers. I could effuse about the content for hours: it has saved my mathematical bacon on very many occasions, and remains my major reference to new areas of math. This book, while being a new edition, still only contains a small fraction of Eric's content.
The complete contents of this book, instantly and easily searchable, with cross references, links to other topics and sites, and incorporating animations is all available at the mathword.wolfram.com website. It is all available free of charge, and is constantly edited and updated. In addition, a huge amount of extra material is there which couldn't be contained in this book.
A previous reviewer alluded to the fact that Eric, when trying to publish his website (which was always a website, long before he signed the deal for the book, and was given special dispensation in the publishing contract), was sued by the publisher of this book and told to take his site down. Although I can see it from the publishers point of view, their attitude towards this key resource was undoubtedly callous and cynical.
I'd really recommend you use his excellent website. If you feel bad that Eric isn't getting his royalty from your purchase: send him a cheque for $5.
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Title: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics: The Mathematical Society of Japan (2 Vol. Set) by Mathematical Society of Japan, Kiyosi Ito ISBN: 0262590204 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 04 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $105.00 |
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Title: Handbook of Physics by J. Harris, John W. Harris, Horst Stocker, Holger Lutz, Walter Benenson, Horst Stoecker ISBN: 0387952691 Publisher: AIP Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science by J. Harris, Horst Stocker, John W. Harris ISBN: 0387947469 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 17 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 31st Edition by Daniel Zwillinger ISBN: 1584882913 Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pub. Date: 27 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil ISBN: 0691099839 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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