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From: an1060@anon.penet.fi
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: SuperStrings
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:55:14 GMT
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Hello,
 
I have the following 2-volume set for sale:
 
 
SuperString Theory, by Green, Schwarz, & Witten, 1987.
  Vol. 1 (list price $39.50)
  Vol. 2 (list price $54.50)
 
Both volumes are in new condition with their jackets.
 
Asking $85 or best offer (make me an offer)!!!
 
Please respond to:  mantell@ams.sunysb.edu
 
Abe
 
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From: vrkaramc@mtu.edu (Karamchedu)
Subject: Re: Books on Chaos theories
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:11:00 GMT

peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
>
>Could somebody recommend one light and one heavy
>reading on Choas ?  Thanks a lot.
>
>- Suresh
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>Department of Computer Science                  Member of UPE CS Honor Society
>Texas A&M, College St TX 77840           Member of IEEE Computer Society & ACM





Try this one for `heavy reading' :
               Introduction to Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos
               by Stephen Wiggins (Springer-Verlag)

For `light reading' I'd suggest :
               Introduction to Chaos theory (or something of this sort)
               by Devoney  (he has a first name also...)




-Raj Karamchedu


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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,alt.books.technical,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.answers
From: an1060@anon.penet.fi
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Parallel Algorithms
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:21:13 GMT
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Hello,

I have the following book for sale:

Analysis & Design of Parallel Algorithms: Arithmetic & Matrix Problems
by Lakshmivarahan & Dhall, 1990.

It is in new condition (the binding will "crack" when opened)!!!

Publishers Price: $44....I ask: $35

Please respond to:  mantell@ams.sunysb.edu

Thanks

Abe

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From: JPG@ECL.PSU.EDU (Jean-Francoi C Pierre)
Subject: Ames Tables (NASA Report 1135)
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 21:51:17 GMT
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	Can anybody tell me if there is a re-edition of the
Ames Tables (NASA Report 1135) "Equations, Tables and Charts
for Compressible Flow" ? The only copy available to me is "quite
used" and xerox copies are not readable.
	Thanks.

Jean-Francois Gallardo
Penn State - Aerospace Engineering
  
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Subject: Re: NEED A GOOD DATA STRUCTURE BOOK IN C, C++
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:10:24 GMT

In article <2aT=02LB307a01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> fmk10@amail.amdahl.com writes:
>Can anybody recommend me a good practical data structure book with C or C++
>examples. Something that has concepts as well as practical examples for
>cut and paste.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Furqan Khan

I recommend "Reliable Data Structures in C" by Thomas Plum, published by 
Plum Hall Inc., 1 Spruce Avenue, Cardiff, NJ, 08232.  The edition I have is
copyright 1985.  It is extremely well written, as I am a beginning C student
and have no problem following the logic.  Lots of examples and explanations.

Robert

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From: ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Books on Unix Networking.
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:39:59 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting

31shroff@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>HI,
>I am intrested on books in TCP/IP and Unix Network programming. 

Try UNIX NETWORKING by Kochan and Wood (ISBN 0-672-48440-4, L of C 89-61050).

I wouldn't sell mine.

--
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From: alec@stortek.com (Alec Sharp - x2955)
Subject: Book publication
Reply-To: alec@stortek.com
Organization: Storage Technology Corp
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:02:09 GMT


Please forgive the commercial nature of this post, but I thought that there
would be at least a few net users interested in it, and couldn't figure out a
way to disseminate the information in a way that would please everyone.

Title:		Software Quality and Productivity
Author:		Alec Sharp
Publisher:	Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN:		0-442-01218-7
Price:		$44.95

Synopsis:	This book is targeted at software developers, and attempts to
apply the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming to software development.  Throughout
the book the emphasis is on two things - reducing rework, and continually
improving the system.

However, adopting the philosphy of continual improvement means little unless
you worry about the details of what you will do and how you will do it. The
book contains both general ideas and specific suggestions of ways to improve
things.  Most people learn better from examples, so there are lots of examples.
All code examples are in C.

The book is not about doing it perfectly - I suspect perfection is impossible
because different projects have different complexities, people vary too much in
their needs, skill sets and personalities, and every solution contains the
seeds of the new set of problems.

Instead, a key theme of the book is to slowly but surely try to improve every
facet of the way that software is developed, always keeping in mind the goal of
reducing rework. This means trying new things and giving new ideas a chance,
then evaluating the results.


Contents
--------

	Preface
1.	Quality, Productivity, and Continual Improvement
2.	Thoughts about Software Development
3.	Training
4.	Metrics: Measuring for Improvement
5.	Change
6.	Software Tools
7.	Requirements through Coding
8.	Maintenance
9.	Delivering Software
10.	Project Teams
11.	Prototyping
12.	Requirements
13.	The Solution
14.	Modularization
15.	Reusable Software
16.	Methodologies
17.	Specifications and Documents
18.	Naming Conventions
19.	Doccumentation
20.	Functions
21.	Files
22.	Coding
23.	Error Reporting
24.	Testing
25.	Debugging
26.	Tracing
27.	Technical Reviews
28.	Review Checklists
29.	Causal Analysis


Alec

Alec_Sharp@stortek.com		Storage Tek, 2270 S. 88th Street
(303)-673-2955			Louisville, CO 80028-4286
"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."
Burrhus Skinner, 1969

Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: rrk@iris3.chem.fsu.edu (Randal R. Ketchem)
Subject: Re: searching for Numerical Math book
Organization: Florida State University -- Structural Biology Program
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 05:21:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.002425.8913@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> wilfried@vnasws.enet.dec.com (Wilfried Bergmann) writes:
>
>I'm searching for good books on "Numerical Math" - special emphasis on
>algorithmic presentations, error boundary estimation, concrete examples
>with solutions. It should be possible to read only the chapter relevant
>to a particular numerical problem and implement the described algorithm.
[much deleted]

I highly recommend 'Numerical Recipes In C'. It also comes in Pascal and
Fortran. Author is William H. Press. ISBN 0-521-35465-X

Randy
From: cribb@inode.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: C/C++ FOR EXPERT SYSTEM
Date: 31 Dec 92 12:56:43 EST
Reply-To: cribb@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, Usenet Access for NYC (212-679-9146)

MIS PRESS is now owned by Henry Holt & Co. in NYC (212 area code).  I suggest you call them and ask for the special sales person, Netty Algian and see what she can do for you.  Say you're a friend of mine (that might work, who knows, she might just give 
you an 800 # and tell you to call someone else....).  Hope this helps and HNY :)  Cribb@inode.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: krol@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Krol)
Subject: Re: Books on Unix Networking.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:56:32 GMT

ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787) writes:

>31shroff@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>>HI,
>>I am intrested on books in TCP/IP and Unix Network programming. 

>Try UNIX NETWORKING by Kochan and Wood (ISBN 0-672-48440-4, L of C 89-61050).

>I wouldn't sell mine.
Also Craig Hunts book by O'Reilly.
From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Why is the ARM hardbound but Stroustrup (2nd Edition) still paperback?
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:54:41 GMT
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


>>>>> "Bjarne" == Bjarne Stroustrup (bs@alice.att.com)

Bjarne> ``The C++ Programming Language'' is softbound (except for the German,
Bjarne> Italian, and Russian) translations to keep the price down.

Bjarne> The ARM on the other hand were supposed to appeal only to a small
Bjarne> number of ``professionals'' who are supposed to have lots of money
Bjarne> so that they are willing to pay for hardcover.

It's actually quite reasonable from a practical viewpoint, too. ``The
C++ Programming Language'' is the kind of book you read
cover-to-cover over a short period of time, and then read parts of a
second time when you've had time to digest the first reading.

The ARM, on the other hand, is the kind of book that sits on your
shelf and gets picked up over and over when you're in doubt of some
tricky detail (and C++ has lots of those) or are discussing something
or other. The ARM needs to be much more rugged than does the Language
book.

/Lars
--
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CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Books on Chaos theories
Date: 29 Dec 1992 23:21:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
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Could somebody recommend one light and one heavy
reading on Choas ?  Thanks a lot.

- Suresh
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From: pcs$1393@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: johns hopkins u. press
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:00:24 -0600
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

i seek the internet or other address for johns hopkins university press. thanks
in advance, tony gallart pcs$1393@selu.edu
From: bhahn@sw.stratus.com (Bill Hahn)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Books on Chaos theories
Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:59:02 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Dec31.151100.1457@mtu.edu>, vrkaramc@mtu.edu (Karamchedu) writes:
> For `light reading' I'd suggest :
>                Introduction to Chaos theory (or something of this sort)
>                by Devoney  (he has a first name also...)
                    ^^^^^^^
		Robert Devaney

Also, try getting the Media Magic catalog, which is full of video tapes,
books and software about chaos, fractals, virtual reality and other interesting
topics (like computer animation).  Their number is (415)-662-2426 9am-5pm
Pacific Time.  

For example, you can get a video tape of Devaney lecturing about "The
Transition to Chaos", with lots of computer generated graphics included.

(Caveat: I have no connection with Media Magic, other than owning a lot
 of their wonderful fractal T-shirts.)

-- 
Bill Hahn               bhahn@sw.stratus.com
Stratus Computer        "Meetings are places where minutes are kept
Marlboro, MA, USA        and hours are lost." From V. Weisskopf's memoirs.
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: dwsmith@bilbo.encore.com (Dwight Smith)
Subject: WANTED: "DEBUGGING C", By Robert Ward, Que Corp., Publ.
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:53:38 GMT
Keywords: C programming language debugging

I am looking for a copy of "Debugging C" to buy. I will pay shipping. SELL IT
TO ME!

(Thanks),
D. Smith

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From: st@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Scott Taylor 3690)
Subject: Re: The Online BookStore Announcement: The Internet Companion
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 01:11:12 GMT

In article <1h7n3rINNk21@cae.cad.gatech.edu> gt1293c@cad.gatech.edu (Scott Radeker) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.220916.21674@netcom.com> jest@netcom.com (Jeff Stieglitz) writes:
>
>
>Most likely, he wrote it as Senator Al Gore in August, but by the time the
>book went to print, he had won the election and it would no longer have been
>accurate to call him anything but VP.

I thought his title was Vice President *Elect* until the inauguration.  So,
they got it wrong either way. ;-)

Scott
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From: mukund@tivoli.UUCP (Mukund Belliappa)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: used technical book store.
Keywords: used, out of print, technical books
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:06:46 GMT
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX

This and other 'books' newsgroups have been good about getting 
together lists of bookstores, addresses, toll-free-numbers,
internet addresses etc. of the big bookstores across the country.
I would like to start making a list of used bookstores, that have
non-trivial selections of technical books.  I have a suspicion
that this list will not be very long. I would like to include the 
'will-help-you-find-out-of-print-books' kind of operations. Is 
such a list already exists, I will build on it. Also all 
information will be welcome -- ph. numbers (toll free or not), 
addresses etc. If responses are mailed to me, I'll post the results.
European netters please respond too.

Cheers

Mukund

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Tivoli Systems Inc.		
Austin Texas
From: an1060@anon.penet.fi
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Book Wanted...
Date: 26 Dec 92 16:58:28 GMT
Organization: Anonymous contact service
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Hello All,
 
Does anyone have a copy of:
 
Mathematics Applied to Continuum Mechanics, by Segel & Handelman.
 
For those who attended RPI, this is the book used for Foundations of
Applied Mathematics II (FOAM II).
 
I am looking for an original copy, i.e. published by Macmillan,
the book is black hardcover with green lettering (yes, quite unattractive)...
 
If you have one in very good condition, please contact me.
 
Respond to:  mantell@ams.sunysb.edu
 
Thanks...
 
Abe Mantell
 
 
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From: mattsq@microsoft.com (Matthew Squires)
Subject: Re: Institutions vs. Individuals (TAX question)
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:56:23 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <8497@btr.BTR.COM> bfong@btr.btr.com (B Fong bfong@btr.com) writes:
>Dear fellow netters,
>
>Here is a question regarding how to save money on taxes when
>trading equities (stocks).
>
>As many (or some) of you know, when an institution (e.g. a
>typical mutual fund) buy and sell an equity it does not incur
>any tax consequence.  The tax consequence is only incurred when
>the investor takes the money out of the fund (then he has either
>a gain or a loss).
>

You are forgetting the other tax consequence of mutual funds, a
consequence a lot of us are discovering this time of year - a mutual
fund must distribute most of its capital gains to its shareholders
every year.

Let's say you set up a "personal mutual fund".  This mutual fund
only has one share, which you own.  This mutual fund can buy and
sell to its heart's content during 1993.  The fund will have
short and long term gains and losses.  The share price of your
personal fund will rise and fall, and as long as you never sell
your one share, there will be no tax consequence for you.

But, at the end of every year, the fund must pass off its capital
gains to the shareholders.  Since you are the solitary shareholder,
you will be hit with a capital gain equal to what the fund gained.

Therefore, you haven't accomplished much except to generate a
bunch of extra paperwork for youself.

MattSkew
mattsq@microsoft.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: larsh@convex.com (Brian Larsh)
Subject: Re: Stock Symbols for Fun & Profit
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:43:48 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

>>Some stock symbols have "cute" or "fun" references to the company.
>>...
>>There are quite a few such symbols which are Not part of a company's
>>name or initials.

Don't forget EAT for Brinker Intl. the restaurant folks that do Chili's,
Macaroni Grill, SpagEddies, and Nacho Momma's.

Brian.
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: IBM: What's your bottom line?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:45:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.225136.5626@netcom.com> masimo@netcom.com (Michael Maas) writes:
>In article <4250052@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch) writes:
>>So, what's your bottom line:
>>
>>	If you owned IBM stock right now, would you sell it?

I just did.  Took a bath, too.

>I do, and I'm not.  I'm waiting for another opportunity to sell covered
>calls on it.  

I'm trying to understand what you mean.

Clearly you could sell a call right now.  But you are waiting for
another opportunity, and you are holding your IBM.  If I put that
together, I think you are saying the calls are too cheap to sell
now.

If so, they must be a good buy, so you should be buying the calls,
right?  The risk is very small -- the price of the (too cheap)
calls.
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
From: stpeters@crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Condemned by Barron's--Is it significan
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:34:42 GMT
Reply-To: stpeters@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY

In article 725654700@calspan.com, calinski@calspan.com (Peter J. Calinski) writes:

> Maybe we could establish a track record on Barrons.

Barrons - or Bearons as I prefer to spell it - comes under a lot of
criticism for being excessively negative, enough so that in an issue a
couple of months or so ago Abelson felt the need to defend them in his
regular front-page column.  His defense was the claim that they are just
contrarians, balancing optimism when it's too high - and by implication,
being rosy when everyone else is down.  That issue reported sentiment
indicators with very low level of bullishness - it came out at roughly
the bottom of 1992's dip to near record-low levels, so to support his
defense, you'd expect them to be cheery and optimistic, right?

Well, that same issue (or one within a week or so) had as it's cover
story an article making the case that we were not in a recession ...
we were in a depression!

Bearons hits some bullseyes, and you'll read about them over and over.
When they're totally wrong, they just drop the topic.  To their credit,
though, they will publish letters to the editor that disagree with
them, including ones that make them look dumb.  My favorite recent
letter was written following that depression article, by someone noting
that he had heard its author give a speech making the same arguments in
1982 - a bad year to buy stocks, to be sure :-)

Several years ago Abelson predicted Sun Micro's imminent demise due to
competition from the big boys, DEC and IBM.  In a cover article, they
virtually accused GE's huge financial services business of being a
Savings&Loan (hey, I got a lot of our stock cheaper in my 401k thanks
to them).  Another of Abelson's targets this year was Cisco Systems.

Some of their right-wing editorials make fun reading, they're a great
source of info that's hard to find elsewhere, but like a wise man once
advised me about brokers, use them for information, not advice.

--
Dick St.Peters
GE Medical Systems, New Berlin, WI  stpeters@med.ge.com (temporary)
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY   stpeters@crd.ge.com (permanent & forwarded)
From: CELIA_TONY_BECKER@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Need Rec. for Money Management SW
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:25:03 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

The largest seller in this field is "Quicken," which you may
recall was sent to each member of Congress by its maker, Intuit, 
during the infamous House Bank scandal.

We use it, both DOS and Windows versions, at work and home and like it.

Anthony and Cecilia Becker, San Jose.
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
Subject: Re: SunMicro?
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:27:34 GMT

yoga@peacetime.Corp.Sun.COM (Yogesh Patel) writes:

> 
> Today, 12/22, SUNW dropped almost one buck on "some" news according to
> my quotetool.  I don't know what news is going around.  Can anyone tell?

A complete guess but maybe the Novell purchase of USL? I for one would
be concerned were I Sun Microsystems.

Paul


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