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- From: roth@3d.enet.dec.com (Jim Roth)
- Subject: Re: math dictionary
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.235249.900@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: 8 JAN 93 18:53:02
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- In article <C0JMw6.6G9@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes...
- >glenne@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Neuromancer ) wrote:
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- >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.
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- Is this still in print? I ask since many years ago I read some French
- research papers and wanted to find a French language math dictionary
- to help with that. The title you mention sounds like exactly the
- one that Ned Anderson recommended to me, though I think the publisher
- was Hermann. At the time, I was told it was out of print...
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- - Jim
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