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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:22:27 GMT
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- In article <ARA.93Jan7012128@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
- >In article <C0GEBz.98t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >Why is this so? I heard a rumor that Serge Lang can knock off a book in
- >a weekend.
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- From my days as a postdoc at Yale, I can confidently report that Serge
- Lang's energy level greatly exceeds that of most mortals. I think that
- the "weekend" figure is an exaggeration; I heard he would write books on
- transatlantic cruises.
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