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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: math dictionary
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:24:06 GMT
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- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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- glenne@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Neuromancer ) wrote:
- > I bought _The Penguin DICTIONARY OF MATHEMATICS_. Many times I find the
- > definitions either too cryptic or lacking enough explanation. Does anyone
- > know of a mathematical dictionary for idiots that still contains useful
- > and comprehensive information?
-
- Not quite "for idiots", but at only a slightly higher level than the Penguin,
- about the same size, and vastly better in its explanations: the French
- "Dictionnaire des mathematiques modernes" (published by Larousse, I think).
- There's no English translation that I know of, but the French is not overly
- complicated.
-
- My usual quick test for a mathematics dictionary is to look up "tensor".
- This one emerges way ahead of its rivals on that. The Penguin is a total
- flop.
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