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Date: 06 Aug 2008 03:11:58
From: samsloan
Subject: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
The ISBN Number is 0-923891-52-8
The website on Amazon where the book will be advertised is:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
Right now that is a blank page, but in 4-6 days it will start to
appear there.
Emil Artin was on born March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria and died on
December 20, 1962, in Hamburg, Germany. He was an Austrian
mathematician. He was one of the great thinkers of his generation.
Emil Artin was a leading algebraist of the twentieth century. He
worked primarily in algebraic number theory, doing pioneering work in
class field theory. He exhibited new L-functions generalizing the zeta
functions, and (with his student John Tate) developed the
cohomological approach to class field theory. He contributed
importantly to the theories of groups, rings and fields. He invented
the theory of braids in algebraic topology.
G. B. Seligman wrote about this book:
=93Considerable stress is laid on active thinking in following the
proofs. Perhaps the outstanding accomplishment of the course is
imparting a sense of what constitutes a mathematical proof and an
appreciation of the ingenuity which goes into the construction of a
proof."
I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course in basic
calculus to graduate with a BS in Accounting. She took a course in
calculus but discovered that the required textbook cost $216 !!!
She was having a hard time with calculus and so she dropped the course
and signed up the next semester for the same course.
This time the required textbook was the same, but a new edition of the
book had come out and using the elder edition of the same book was
just not acceptable, so she had to spend another $216 for a new
edition of the same book.
All this was covered by a student loan, but she will have to pay that
back some day. I suppose that these student loans are what enables
text book publishers to get away with the outrageous prices for these
college textbooks.
This explains how today's students get into the endless cycle of ever
increasing debt, which they hope to get out of with the bug bucks they
hope to make when (and if) they finally graduate.
Since there are a million old college math textbooks out there just as
good if not better than the $216 basic math book my wife keeps having
to buy, and since math has not changed very much, I started looking
for oldies but goodies in the math book field. I came across this
book, entitled =93A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus and Analytic
Geometry as Taught at Princeton University=94.
Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin.
Dr. Greenberg is a Professor of Math at the University of California
at Santa Cruz. I know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when we
were both students at the University of California at Berkeley in the
Math Department.
This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I was able to prevail
upon Professor Greenberg to write a Foreword to this book.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 30 Aug 2008 05:17:50
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 14, 7:58=A0am, "N. Silver" <[email protected] > wrote:
> samsloan wrote:
> > N. Silver wrote:
> >> samsloan wrote:
> >>> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> >>> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry=
.
> >> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and =
3
> >> as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book is
> >> not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there is n=
ot
> >> really a market for it.
> > Good point, thank you.
> > This probably explains why this book has not been reprinted since
> > 1958. It is too hard for the average student.
> > Indeed, I was discouraged from reprinting this book for exactly that
> > reason.
> > However, I nevertheless think that there is a market for a book that
> > explains the first three semesters of college calculus in just 126 page=
s.
>
> That is an exaggeration. The book is not a textbook but Artin's
> lecture notes (written down by Seligman) for a year course that met
> twice a week (plus a recitation section).
>
> His notes were typed on a typewriter (albeit under the auspices of
> the MAA) and that's the way they appear in the book.
I believe that you are mistaken. Have you actually seen the book? It
was rare until I reprinted it. It is out now at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
The book does not read like lecture notes. It would be almost
impossible for a mere student in a classroom setting to write this all
down, with all these charts and diagrams.
I believe that Artin wrote the book but that the introduction was
written by somebody else, possibly Seligman.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 25 Aug 2008 06:05:12
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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This is the first in a series of old math books that Ishi Press will
be reprinting. Next, we will be reprinting =93General Topology=94 by John
L. Kelley and =93Calculus with Analytic Geometry=94 in two volumes by
Angus E. Taylor.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 24 Aug 2008 22:09:48
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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samsloan wrote:
> I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
> accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course in basic
> calculus to graduate with a BS in Accounting.
I think I may be able to shed some light on
this issue. You see, the government hires a
lot of accountants these days, and no matter
which department or general field of specialty,
a government accountant requires consider-
able skills in every sort of math-- including
imaginary numbers, calculus, creative
accounting, and especially in the area of
deficit-spending accounting and the printing
of funny-money. If you only knew how
demanding this sort of work is becoming,
you would not question the demand for
advanced math skills for a degree in the
field.
-- help bot
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Date: 24 Aug 2008 11:13:41
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
The ISBN Number is 0-923891-52-8
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
Publisher's Preface
Emil Artin, who was on born March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria and died
on December 20, 1962, in Hamburg, Germany, was an Austrian
mathematician. He was one of the great thinkers of his generation.
Although he was not Jewish, his wife was Jewish and for this reason he
lost his job as a teacher in Germany in 1937. This proved to be
fortunate in view of what happened later, because he came to America
and in 1938 took a teaching position at Indiana University. In 1946,
he moved to Princeton University.
I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course in basic
calculus to graduate with a BS in Accounting. She took a course in
calculus but discovered that the required textbook cost $216 !!!
She was having a hard time with calculus and so she dropped the course
and signed up the next semester for the same course.
This time the required textbook was the same, but a new edition of the
book had come out and using the elder edition of the same book was
just not acceptable, so she had to spend another $216 for a new
edition of the same book.
All this was covered by a student loan, but she will have to pay that
back some day. I suppose that these student loans are what enables
text book publishers to get away with the outrageous prices they are
charging for these college textbooks.
This explains how today's students get into the endless cycle of ever
increasing debt, which they hope to get out of with the big bucks they
hope to make when (and if) they finally graduate.
Since there are a million old college math textbooks out there just as
good if not better than the $216 basic math book my wife keeps having
to buy, and since math has not changed very much, I started looking
for oldies but goodies in the math book field. I came across this
book, entitled =93A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus and Analytic
Geometry as Taught at Princeton University=94.
While I realize that Princeton University was the number one math
school in America, and for that reason the name is included in the
title of the book, I have decided to reprint this book but omitting
the part about =93as Taught at Princeton University=94 because other
schools might want to adopt this book and naturally they think that
they are just as good as Princeton University.
Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin. I
know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when I was a student at
the University of California at Berkeley in the Math Department and
Dr. Greenberg was an Assistant Professor there.
When I asked Dr. Greenberg to write a foreword to this book, I did not
even know that he had been at Princeton University and that Emil Artin
had been his thesis advisor there until 1958 when Artin had returned
to Germany. This turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
By the way, my wife dropped calculus a second time. As it is a
required course, she took it a third time, this time in Summer
Session, so that they would not have time to publish another edition
of the calculus textbook and therefore she would not have to spend
another $216. Her grades just came back. She got a D+. She is angry
because of her low grade and I am celebrating because of her high
grade.
Sam Sloan
Bronx NY
August 25, 2008
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Date: 26 Aug 2008 16:34:08
From: -
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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No doubt these Sam Sloan references to $216 were
also incidents from the film _Pi_ by Darren Aronofsky:
[ ... ]
MAX
What's the two hundred and sixteen number, Sol?
SOL
Excuse me?
MAX
You asked me if I had seen a two hundred and
sixteen digit number, right?
SOL
Oh, you mean the bug. I found it working on Pi.
MAX
What do you mean by "found it"?
SOL
What's this all about, Max?
MAX
Well, there's these religious Jews who have...
SOL
Religious Jews?
MAX
Well, you know, Hassidim. I met one in the coffee shop.
The guy's a number theorist. The Torah is their data set.
The thing is, they're searching for a two hundred and sixteen
digit number in the Torah.
[ ... ]
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/pi.html
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samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
> accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course
> in basic calculus to graduate with a BS in Accounting. She took
> a course in calculus but discovered that the required textbook
> cost $216 !!!
>
> She was having a hard time with calculus and so she dropped the
> course and signed up the next semester for the same course.
>
> This time the required textbook was the same, but a new edition
> of the book had come out and using the elder edition of the same
> book was just not acceptable, so she had to spend another $216
> for a new edition of the same book.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Since there are a million old college math textbooks out there just
> as good if not better than the $216 basic math book my wife keeps
> having to buy, and since math has not changed very much, I started
> looking for oldies but goodies in the math book field.
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Date: 25 Aug 2008 10:21:45
From: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_R.?=
Subject: AW: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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samsloan wrote:
> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
>
> The ISBN Number is 0-923891-52-8
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
>
> Publisher's Preface
>
> Emil Artin, who was on born March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria and died
> on December 20, 1962, in Hamburg, Germany, was an Austrian
> mathematician. He was one of the great thinkers of his generation.
>
> Although he was not Jewish, his wife was Jewish and for this reason he
> lost his job as a teacher in Germany in 1937. This proved to be
> fortunate in view of what happened later, because he came to America
> and in 1938 took a teaching position at Indiana University. In 1946,
> he moved to Princeton University.
>
> I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
> accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course in basic
> calculus
Doesn't your mailorder bride go to Lehman College?
Remember that Lehman College was once part of a respectable
University. Universities used to have the objective of educating
students. Education was defined broadly. They used to babble on
and on about something called 'liberal education' and 'liberal arts',
without ever defining what this was to mean; for example, even if
a student majored in a real academic field, say physics, he was
obliged to take courses in English, History, Math, Chemistry
etc.
Today Lehman College accepts all applicants. Students need not
be able to read rite or do sums. Typically, they major in Black Studies,
White Studies, Woman Studies, Gay History, Real Estate,
Business, and Accounting. While there is no literacy requirement
there is still a vague attempt to weed out the stupidest by
making them take courses like calculus, where you actually
have to think a bit to follow. It clearly isn't possible to
teach integration to people who can't add or to make any
progress with differentiation when people have no understanding
of elementary geometry. It is a truly surreal exercise - I have
actually done this once - and the instructor is advised to
pass anybody who can spell his name.
> to graduate with a BS in Accounting. She took a course in
> calculus but discovered that the required textbook cost $216 !!!
>
> She was having a hard time with calculus and so she dropped the course
> and signed up the next semester for the same course.
>
> This time the required textbook was the same, but a new edition of the
> book had come out and using the elder edition of the same book was
> just not acceptable, so she had to spend another $216 for a new
> edition of the same book.
>
> All this was covered by a student loan, but she will have to pay that
> back some day. I suppose that these student loans are what enables
> text book publishers to get away with the outrageous prices they are
> charging for these college textbooks.
>
> This explains how today's students get into the endless cycle of ever
> increasing debt, which they hope to get out of with the big bucks they
> hope to make when (and if) they finally graduate.
>
> Since there are a million old college math textbooks out there just as
> good if not better than the $216 basic math book my wife keeps having
> to buy, and since math has not changed very much,
While elementary math hasn't changed, the teaching of it has changed
enormously.
> I started looking
> for oldies but goodies in the math book field. I came across this
> book, entitled �A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus and Analytic
> Geometry as Taught at Princeton University�.
>
> While I realize that Princeton University was the number one math
> school in America, and for that reason the name is included in the
> title of the book, I have decided to reprint this book but omitting
> the part about �as Taught at Princeton University� because other
> schools might want to adopt this book and naturally they think that
> they are just as good as Princeton University.
No sane instructor will 'adopt' this book. It is not a calculus
textbook - this was pointed out to you before. These are lecture notes
taken by a student, didactically useless.
>
> Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
> friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin. I
> know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when I was a student at
> the University of California at Berkeley in the Math Department and
> Dr. Greenberg was an Assistant Professor there.
>
> When I asked Dr. Greenberg to write a foreword to this book, I did not
> even know that he had been at Princeton University and that Emil Artin
> had been his thesis advisor there until 1958 when Artin had returned
> to Germany. This turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
>
> By the way, my wife dropped calculus a second time.
Didn't she know that they flunk nobody who comes to every class?
> As it is a
> required course, she took it a third time, this time in Summer
> Session, so that they would not have time to publish another edition
> of the calculus textbook and therefore she would not have to spend
> another $216. Her grades just came back. She got a D+. She is angry
> because of her low grade and I am celebrating because of her high
> grade.
And this is the introduction to a book by an eminent mathematician?
Artin actually was an eminent mathematician - not, as Sloan claims,
one of the great thinkers of the age, but still a first-rate scholar.
>
>
>
> Sam Sloan
> Bronx NY
> August 25, 2008
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 12:12:24
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 14, 7:58 am, "N. Silver" <[email protected] > wrote:
>
> That is an exaggeration. The book is not a textbook but Artin's
> lecture notes (written down by Seligman) for a year course that met
> twice a week (plus a recitation section).
>
> His notes were typed on a typewriter (albeit under the auspices of
> the MAA) and that's the way they appear in the book.
So it started as "Artin's book on Calculus" and ended as pre-TeX
lecture notes, eh?
I wonder if anyone would purchase such a book. There are many lecture
notes on different subjects available for download for free (and
typeset in LaTeX for you reading pleasure). Check trillia.com for
excellent lectures of Elias Zakon). Check ocw.mit.edu for the number
of lectures. All (with a few exceptions on ocw.mit.edu) are in LaTeX,
and available for download for free. Specifically for Calculus, check
ocw.mit.edu, 'Calculus with Theory', typewritten notes of the lectures
by Munkres, which is also 'high-level Calculus'.
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 11:43:51
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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The book has just appeared but it does not show the price and
availability yet.
That will come in a few hours.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
On Aug 6, 3:11=A0am, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
>
> The ISBN Number is =A00-923891-52-8
>
> The website on Amazon where the book will be advertised is:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
>
> Right now that is a blank page, but in 4-6 days it will start to
> appear there.
>
> Emil Artin was on born March 3, 1898, in Vienna, Austria and died on
> December 20, 1962, in Hamburg, Germany. He was an Austrian
> mathematician. He was one of the great thinkers of his generation.
>
> Emil Artin was a leading algebraist of the twentieth century. He
> worked primarily in algebraic number theory, doing pioneering work in
> class field theory. He exhibited new L-functions generalizing the zeta
> functions, and (with his student John Tate) developed the
> cohomological approach to class field theory. He contributed
> importantly to the theories of groups, rings and fields. He invented
> the theory of braids in algebraic topology.
>
> G. B. Seligman wrote about this book:
>
> =93Considerable stress is laid on active thinking in following the
> proofs. Perhaps the outstanding accomplishment of the course is
> imparting a sense of what constitutes a mathematical proof and an
> appreciation of the ingenuity which goes into the construction of a
> proof."
>
> I became inspired to reprint this book because my wife is an
> accounting major and for some reason she must pass a course in basic
> calculus to graduate with a BS in Accounting. She took a course in
> calculus but discovered that the required textbook cost $216 !!!
>
> She was having a hard time with calculus and so she dropped the course
> and signed up the next semester for the same course.
>
> This time the required textbook was the same, but a new edition of the
> book had come out and using the elder edition of the same book was
> just not acceptable, so she had to spend another $216 for a new
> edition of the same book.
>
> All this was covered by a student loan, but she will have to pay that
> back some day. I suppose that these student loans are what enables
> text book publishers to get away with the outrageous prices for these
> college textbooks.
>
> This explains how today's students get into the endless cycle of ever
> increasing debt, which they hope to get out of with the bug bucks they
> hope to make when (and if) they finally graduate.
>
> Since there are a million old college math textbooks out there just as
> good if not better than the $216 basic math book my wife keeps having
> to buy, and since math has not changed very much, I started looking
> for oldies but goodies in the math book field. I came across this
> book, entitled =93A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus and Analytic
> Geometry as Taught at Princeton University=94.
>
> Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
> friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin.
> Dr. Greenberg is a Professor of Math at the University of California
> at Santa Cruz. I know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when we
> were both students at the University of California at Berkeley in the
> Math Department.
>
> This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I was able to prevail
> upon Professor Greenberg to write a Foreword to this book.
>
> Sam Sloan
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 08:23:18
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 14, 4:58=A0am, "N. Silver" <[email protected] > wrote:
> samsloan wrote:
> > N. Silver wrote:
> >> samsloan wrote:
> >>> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> >>> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry=
.
> >> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and =
3
> >> as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book is
> >> not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there is n=
ot
> >> really a market for it.
> > Good point, thank you.
> > This probably explains why this book has not been reprinted since
> > 1958. It is too hard for the average student.
> > Indeed, I was discouraged from reprinting this book for exactly that
> > reason.
> > However, I nevertheless think that there is a market for a book that
> > explains the first three semesters of college calculus in just 126 page=
s.
>
> That is an exaggeration. The book is not a textbook but Artin's
> lecture notes (written down by Seligman) for a year course that met
> twice a week (plus a recitation section).
>
> His notes were typed on a typewriter (albeit under the auspices of
> the MAA) and that's the way they appear in the book.-
I will check with Dr. Greenberg to see if that is correct.
Emil Artin was the thesis advisor to Dr. Greenberg at Princeton
University until Emil Artin went back to Germany. Dr. Greenberg wrote
the introduction. He also wrote me to say that he was never a student
at the University of California at Berkeley. Rather he was an
Assistant Professor there in the 1960s when I was a student.
It is true that the book is essentially type written, however, it
comes out well in the reprinting. I have retyped myself many of the
pages that do not look so good. I think that the result is quite
acceptable.
It is true that I could not figure out which parts were written by
Emil Artin and which were written by Seligman.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 13 Aug 2008 11:17:17
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 13, 3:32=A0am, "N. Silver" <[email protected] > wrote:
> samsloan wrote:
> > Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> > reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
>
> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and 3
> as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book is
> not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there is not
> really a market for it.
Good point, thank you.
This probably explains why this book has not been reprinted since
1958. It is too hard for the average student.
Indeed, I was discouraged from reprinting this book for exactly that
reason.
However, I nevertheless think that there is a market for a book that
explains the first three semesters of college calculus in just 126
pages.
Sam Sloan
> > Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
> > friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin.
> > Dr. Greenberg is a Professor of Math at the University of California
> > at Santa Cruz. I know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when
> > we were both students at the University of California at Berkeley in th=
e
> > Math Department.
> > This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I was able to prevail
> > upon Professor Greenberg to write a Foreword to this book.
>
> He wrote a text on hyperbolic geometry that was a best seller.
> .
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 11:58:58
From: N. Silver
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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samsloan wrote:
> N. Silver wrote:
>> samsloan wrote:
>>> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
>>> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
>> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and 3
>> as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book is
>> not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there is not
>> really a market for it.
> Good point, thank you.
> This probably explains why this book has not been reprinted since
> 1958. It is too hard for the average student.
> Indeed, I was discouraged from reprinting this book for exactly that
> reason.
> However, I nevertheless think that there is a market for a book that
> explains the first three semesters of college calculus in just 126 pages.
That is an exaggeration. The book is not a textbook but Artin's
lecture notes (written down by Seligman) for a year course that met
twice a week (plus a recitation section).
His notes were typed on a typewriter (albeit under the auspices of
the MAA) and that's the way they appear in the book.
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 14:58:02
From: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_R.?=
Subject: AW: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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N. Silver wrote:
> samsloan wrote:
>> N. Silver wrote:
>>> samsloan wrote:
>
>>>> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
>>>> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic
>>>> Geometry.
>
>>> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 ,
>>> and 3 as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally,
>>> this book is not for ordinary students but Princeton honor
>>> students. So, there is not really a market for it.
>
>> Good point, thank you.
>
>> This probably explains why this book has not been reprinted since
>> 1958. It is too hard for the average student.
>
>> Indeed, I was discouraged from reprinting this book for exactly that
>> reason.
>
>> However, I nevertheless think that there is a market for a book that
>> explains the first three semesters of college calculus in just 126
>> pages.
>
> That is an exaggeration. The book is not a textbook but Artin's
> lecture notes (written down by Seligman) for a year course that met
> twice a week (plus a recitation section).
>
> His notes were typed on a typewriter (albeit under the auspices of
> the MAA) and that's the way they appear in the book.
Do you expect Fishi Press, publisher of stolen books, to employ an
editor to actually read the books that Sloan is xeroxing?
Do you expect Sloan to know how tedious it can be to read pre-Tex math books
with type-written formulas?
Since this is another book that is clearly not in the public domain
Sloan may ultimately be glad that nobody is likely to buy a copy.
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Date: 13 Aug 2008 10:32:49
From: N. Silver
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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samsloan wrote:
> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry.
There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and 3
as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book is
not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there is not
really a market for it.
> Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
> friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin.
> Dr. Greenberg is a Professor of Math at the University of California
> at Santa Cruz. I know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when
> we were both students at the University of California at Berkeley in the
> Math Department.
> This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I was able to prevail
> upon Professor Greenberg to write a Foreword to this book.
He wrote a text on hyperbolic geometry that was a best seller.
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Date: 14 Aug 2008 14:59:14
From: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_R.?=
Subject: AW: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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N. Silver wrote:
> samsloan wrote:
>
>> Ishi Press, publisher of fine go books, is proud to announce the
>> reprinting of Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic
>> Geometry.
>
> There are only 126 pages plus references to cover calculus 1, 2 , and
> 3 as opposed to over a thousand for texts today. Naturally, this book
> is not for ordinary students but Princeton honor students. So, there
> is not really a market for it.
>
>> Fortunately, just by pure coincidence, I discovered that an old
>> friend, Dr. Marvin J. Greenberg, is a former student of Emil Artin.
>> Dr. Greenberg is a Professor of Math at the University of California
>> at Santa Cruz. I know Dr. Greenberg from the time in the 1960s when
>> we were both students at the University of California at Berkeley in
>> the Math Department.
>
>> This turned out to be a pleasant surprise and I was able to prevail
>> upon Professor Greenberg to write a Foreword to this book.
Did you tell him that you are infringing the copyright?
>
> He wrote a text on hyperbolic geometry that was a best seller.
> .
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 23:40:27
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 12, 11:55=A0pm, Mike Murray <[email protected] > wrote:
> "Newer versions of the Chronos even have a touch-sensitive button
> system that prevents players from hitting the clock with their pieces;
> it only responds to human touch! No moving parts, nothing to break.
> Just a silver disc sitting atop the chess clock that activates at the
> slightest touch."
Aha! Silver: that probably means they are
detecting the electrical charge of the human
body. Now, that idiot Albert Einstein would
try and say that if you move relative to the
clock, time slows down or speeds up, which
of course is nonsense. He was always
confounding the concept of clock-readings
with time itself, which naturally is immutable.
Silver is a fantastic conductor of electricity
(a fact I discovered as a child when I stuck
a half-dollar in a wall socket only to regain
my senses somewhere in the next county!
Some called it "idiocy", but it perfectly
matches the description of the scientific
method; hence, science, which makes
me a scientist of sorts).
I find it strange to desire to press the
button with a plastic chess piece, rather
than the fingers. Tell me, was your
opponent picking his nose and then
touching the clock buttons-- including
yours? That's one possible explanation.
Or, what about static electricity? Do you
frequently comb your hair or walk across
a wool rug during the game, thus
acquiring a strong static electrical charge
which could then be transferred to the
metal clock button, resulting in a bit of a
sudden shock?
Maybe your irrational fear of touching
a clock button reveals a deep, psycho-
logical problem. When you play chess,
do you see your own Queen as the
center of focus, as if it were your
mother and you still a child? And what
about the enemy King-- do you see it as
a manifestation of your father, and
desire to "kill" it dead? Bishops and
Knights may represent your siblings,
while the square shape of the board
represents the idea that you want a
square, pan pizza-- not a round, or
"pan" pizza, with its thin, flaky crust.
But then, I am not a trained psycho-
analyst. Just a scientist, who knows
more than most about electricity... .
-- help bot
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Date: 13 Aug 2008 06:06:42
From: Mike Murray
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT), help bot
<[email protected] > wrote:
> I find it strange to desire to press the
>button with a plastic chess piece, rather
>than the fingers.
I prefer a heavy blunt object or a Bowie knife, but they won't let me
have them. It was either a chess piece or my crayon.
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 20:20:30
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 12, 10:57=A0pm, Mike Murray <[email protected] > wrote:
> Good to see you haven't lost touch with the old ways.
>=A0I played a
> blitz tournament this weekend and wasted many precious seconds
> helplessly tapping my clock "button" with captured pieces. =A0 Seems you
> have to punch many of the new digital =A0clocks with your *finger* --
> plastic men just won't =A0cut it. =A0I "got" =A0it mentally fairly soon, =
but
> it was hard to retrain my hand.
I haven't played blitz chess in decades.
Back in the day, I used to be the local
king of the roost at blitz-- possibly
because my chess was so shallow that
it was barely affected by a five-minute
time limit. I was also exceedingly good
at what they called "quick chess".
Now, I'm not sure I could win a Class C
blitz tourney section. And yes, when it
comes time to set the newfangled clocks,
I am as helpless as a newborn babe. I
blame the clocks for having lots and lots
of buttons-- none of which are labeled
properly as to their various functions.
Oddly enough, despite a long absence
from play I never seem to forget to press
the clock, nor do I have any difficulties
whatever with recording the moves. In
fact, the only part I am having trouble
with now is winning (and adjusting to
playing all day, rather than, say, all
night).
So, what is it about these clocks that
renders pressing the button with a
plastic chess man ineffective? Were
the pieces hollow, or is there a finger-
print reader perhaps? I see that the
old, cheap plastic BHBs of my era
have apparently worn out, for they are
no longer used. Everyone seems to
have a digital clock, and the five-
second time delay changes everything.
For instance, in one recent game I
had an overwhelming time advantage,
but I kept missing key tactical shots
which would have led to a prolonged
endgame (and likely, a win for me). I
proceeded to not only overlook a
simple Knight fork, but worse, I was
driven off from defending a Knight and
altogether, this landed me down the
equivalent of a Queen! The time-
delay nullified what little I had in the
way of compensation-- vague threats
to perhaps come close to almost
nearly maybe getting a perpetual
check type of thing. I was beaten
like carrots. : >D
-- help bot
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 20:29:39
From: Mike Murray
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:20:30 -0700 (PDT), help bot
<[email protected] > wrote:
>On Aug 12, 10:57�pm, Mike Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, what is it about these clocks that
>renders pressing the button with a
>plastic chess man ineffective? Were
>the pieces hollow, or is there a finger-
>print reader perhaps?
Dunno. They didn't all work like that, just some of 'em. Maybe it's
the amount of pressure required or they're heat sensitive or
something. I was so busy pondering whether I looked more the rube or
the dinosaur that I forgot to pursue the question with those who know.
> I see that the
>old, cheap plastic BHBs of my era
>have apparently worn out, for they are
>no longer used. Everyone seems to
>have a digital clock, and the five-
>second time delay changes everything.
Couple years ago, I got a sweet deal on an analog battery-operated
quartz clock on e-bay. But since I had neglected to wear a
double-breasted suit and wing-tips to the tournament, I left it in the
car.
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 20:55:16
From: Mike Murray
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:29:39 -0700, Mike Murray
<[email protected] > wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:20:30 -0700 (PDT), help bot
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, what is it about these clocks that
>>renders pressing the button with a
>>plastic chess man ineffective? Were
>>the pieces hollow, or is there a finger-
>>print reader perhaps?
>Dunno. They didn't all work like that, just some of 'em. Maybe it's
>the amount of pressure required or they're heat sensitive or
>something. I was so busy pondering whether I looked more the rube or
>the dinosaur that I forgot to pursue the question with those who know.
OK, I went to the Web for the truth:
"Newer versions of the Chronos even have a touch-sensitive button
system that prevents players from hitting the clock with their pieces;
it only responds to human touch! No moving parts, nothing to break.
Just a silver disc sitting atop the chess clock that activates at the
slightest touch."
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/906513/the_chronos_chess_clock_a_step_above.html
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 19:43:12
From: help bot
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Aug 12, 8:59=A0pm, samsloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> The book by Emil Artin entitled "A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus
> and Anayltic Geometry" has been published by Ishi Press today.
>
> Within about 48 hours it will appear for sale on the Amazon website
> for $25.95 athttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
>
> Right now, that website is blank, but keep checking and it will appear
> soon.
>
> The great news is that my wife just got her grade and she got a D+ in
> calculus.
>
> Is not that wonderful?!!
One idea would be to "take a course" on
calculus, minus much of the complicated
math (sound impossible? read on...).
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Calculus has made it possible to build
bridges that span miles of river, travel to
the moon, and predict patterns of
population change." -- TGC Web site
----------------------------------------------------------
Of course, bridges cannot really travel
to the moon or make predictions, but
the point is that calculus is not just the
hardened plaque on one's teeth!
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=3D177&pc=3DHom=
ePageFeature
Only a fool would charge that Mr.
Sloan's post has nothing whatever to do
with chess, since obviously it is just a
matter of time before the game is
solved... using -- what else? -- calculus
and computers (and chaos theory, if any
of my chess games are to be properly
understood).
So then, what is the purpose of all
these reprints by Mr. Sloan? We, the
chess playing public are still waiting for
"My Sixty Unforgettable Games" in
algebraic notation, and please include
an index and no careless diagram
errors. If Mr. Sloan's wife cannot easily
translate from descriptive to algebraic
notation, I am willing to help.
-- help bot
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 19:57:11
From: Mike Murray
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been reprinted
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:12 -0700 (PDT), help bot
<[email protected] > wrote:
> If Mr. Sloan's wife cannot easily
>translate from descriptive to algebraic
>notation, I am willing to help.
Good to see you haven't lost touch with the old ways. I played a
blitz tournament this weekend and wasted many precious seconds
helplessly tapping my clock "button" with captured pieces. Seems you
have to punch many of the new digital clocks with your *finger* --
plastic men just won't cut it. I "got" it mentally fairly soon, but
it was hard to retrain my hand.
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Date: 12 Aug 2008 17:59:15
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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The book by Emil Artin entitled "A Freshman Honors Course in Calculus
and Anayltic Geometry" has been published by Ishi Press today.
Within about 48 hours it will appear for sale on the Amazon website
for $25.95 at
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891528
Right now, that website is blank, but keep checking and it will appear
soon.
The great news is that my wife just got her grade and she got a D+ in
calculus.
Is not that wonderful?!!
Actually, she is upset. She studied hard and says that she wants an
upgrade to a C-, but I am quite happy that she just passed.
Sam Sloan
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Date: 06 Aug 2008 04:51:37
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Emil Artin's Textbook on Calculus and Analytic Geometry has been
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Richard wrote:
Dear Sam,
I think that the Artin Calculus book is too sophiscated for your
wife. The Taylor Calculus book is what you should have her study.
Richard
Dear Richard,
I know of course that my wife could never pass Artin's calculus
course. Actually, she took the calculus course three times, not just
two times. I think that the third time she did not have to buy the
same math book again, however.
She had her final exam yesterday. We hope she passes. The book is
right here.
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Applications-9th-Margaret-Lial/dp/0321334337/
The price is lower now, because the 10th edition is out now.
She also had to buy another Mathematical Applications book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618814507/
We will do the Taylor book next, after the book you just sent.
I right now have a back-log of 11 books that have been scanned but
cannot be sent to the printers because an introduction still needs to
be written.
Sam Sloan
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