The first edition of Winning Ways was released in two volumes. The second edition was released in four. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there more than one Winning Ways book?
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Tom Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, we're going backwards too; several recent technical books I have ordered (including one volume of the new Winning Ways) were apparently printed-on-demand. This absolutely destroyed the typefaces and ruined the illustrations. It was like trying to read a third-generation xerox. And of course they had the gall to charge as though it were a finely bound offset-printed edition. No book costing $50 should look like it came out of a cheap dot-matrix printer---especially when I know the care taken by the author and original publisher to make it beautiful!
I complained loudly to Amazon about the Winning Ways volume; they were very understanding and promised to send me a copy of the book properly printed. The second copy was as bad as the first.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
MJCollins>
This can also be found in chapter 7.5 of Graham/Knuth/Patashnik "Concrete Mathematics".
WD> Which I find available online at https://notendur.hi.is/pgg/(ebook-pdf)%20-%20Mathematics%20-%20Concrete%20Ma... <https://notendur.hi.is/pgg/%28ebook-pdf%29%20-%20Mathematics%20-%20Concrete%20Mathematics.pdf>
Whit
This pdf is a case of getting what you pay for. Yes, it will probably teach you Raney's lemma, but it is an OCR of a book that someone has scribbled in, and is full of dangerous errors (e.g., missing minus signs) and hopeless garbles. In citing their reasons for creating the controversial Euler font for this book, GK&P cagily forgot to mention confounding piracy!
However much you may dislike the Euler font, it is bliss compared to the insanely random caca from the OCRware trying to imitate it.
--rwg
The only thing nearly as ugly was the preview copy of his latest edition Addison Wesley sent DEK after punting their fine old printer and switching to phototypesetting. It was laughable. I wonder if anyone (in the Free World) would have paid money for it. It was why he had to drop everything and build TeX and MetaFont. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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