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- From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
- Subject: Books on Mathematica (was Re: Novice asks for symbolic math suggestions...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.050947.24916@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 05:09:47 GMT
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- From two previous posts:
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- > If you opt for Mathematica, the essential book is "Mathematica Quick
- > Reference, Version 2" by Nancy Blachman which summarizes all of the
- > commands and their options.
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- ...unless you're over 50, in which case your eyesight probably
- won't be able to cope with the miniscule typefaces. :)
-
- >I got by ok with just the Mathematica textbook that comes with
- >Mathematica, but you probably have to be an experienced programmer to
- >understand it.
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- From my experience, if you're a novice to moderately experienced
- Mathematica user you'll find Nancy Blachman's "Mathematica: A
- Practical Approach" (Prentice-Hall, 1992) very helpful and useful.
- Roman Maeder's "Programming in Mathematica", 2nd ed (Addison-Wesley,
- 1991) is more esoteric and less useful to the beginner, but you can
- find some more advanced tricks and topics in it. Get Blachman.
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-