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- From: yeomans@austin.onu.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:43:12 GMT
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- In article <ARA.93Jan7012128@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
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- > 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.
- >
- I heard it was a month.
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- Lang's books tend to be of somewhat uneven quality; also, given his
- writing technique, the quality is actually quite high, I suppose.
- And Lang's mathematical insight is an order of magnitude above that of
- most mathematicians.
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- Charles Yeomans
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