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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <pete.03o4@bignode.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz (Pete Moore)
- Date: 8 Jan 93 11:53:14 +1200
- Reply-To: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz
- References: <ARA.93Jan7012128@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- I've been following this thread with interest from the beginning (I still
- get a smile from the subject line; we say `pissed off' in this part
- of the world, and use `pissed' as a rude synonym for `intoxicated').
-
- Allan Adler (ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
-
- >I heard a rumor that Serge Lang can knock off a book in
- >a weekend.
-
- Ah! I guess that explains why
-
- (1) there are so many books by Serge Lang
- (2) `avoid Serge Lang' is a useful rule of thumb when looking for good
- textbooks.
-
-
- On the subject of textbook prices, may I join the rest of the non-Americans
- on the net in saying: I wish our paperbacks were as inexpensive as the
- hardbacks you Americans are complaining about.
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