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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- In-Reply-To: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:26:22 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:21:28 GMT
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- In article <C0GEBz.98t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- The amount of effort required to produce a fairly good book when one
- does not already exist for a one-semester to one-year course is two
- or three person-years, and preferably involves more than one person
- writing it. An active faculty member does not have the time to do
- very much writing.
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- Why is this so? I heard a rumor that Serge Lang can knock off a book in
- a weekend.
-
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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