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From: johne@or.credence.com (John Ewing)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Book on Applied Math
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:01:10 GMT
Organization: Credence Systems Corp. Beaverton, OR

In article <BAGCHI.92Dec12163233@gip.eecs.umich.edu> bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Drzzzzt!  Bagchi) writes:
>	As the subject says, I'm looking for something well-written which'll
>give me an idea of the methods and ideas in applied math.   My background
>is that of a pure math type who's done a fair bit of graduate coursework.

Ranjan:

Try "Advanced Engineering Mathematics" by Erwin Kreysizg (ISBN 0-471-85824-2).
It is about 1300 pages and very well written and complete.  One possible
draw-back is that is very complete and advanced, however, when I really need
to look something up, I can usually find it there.

>	-rj
>--
>Ranjan Bagchi					       Ranjan.Bagchi@umich.edu
>oo   oooo  o oo   ooo oo oo   oo       o o  oooo ooo o       o        oooooooo

John Ewing (johne@or.credence.com)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: Re: Internet Literature Search
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:34:53 GMT

chapman@ims.com (Dave Chapman) writes:

>Is there a way to do technical/scientific literature searches via the
>internet?

>Thank you,
>-- 
>Dave Chapman   	       	       	    | chapman@ims.com
>Integrated Measurement Systems	    |
>9525 SW Gemini Dr.		    | work 503 626 5373
>Beaverton, Oregon 97005 	    |

I would like to know too.
Thanks,

--
Thanh Ma
tma@encore.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: lhsux@swingset.bae.bellcore.com (Lorne Schachter)
Subject: Re: Feynman lectures: problems?
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 13:13:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.155353.3385@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, bwhite@cobra.camb.inmet.com (Bill White) writes:
|> I have met a number of engineers who used the Feynmann lectures
|> for their physics classes - many at Caltech.  They have claimed
|> that there is a collection of problems (and perhaps solutions)
|> that goes with the books.  I have never seen such a thing, though
|> I will admit that I have not looked very hard.  Does anybody
|> know where I might find them?  I would be happy with a photocopied
|> set, or something acquired via ftp, though, of course, I don't want
|> to violate anyone's copyright rights.  Thanks for your attention.
|> 
|> 				Peace,
|> 				Bill White
|> 				<bwhite@cobra.camb.inmet.com>

Those of us who were undergraduates at Caltech fondly remember the three
volumes of problems that got us through two years of physics.  The problem
books were published by AW, just like the lectures.  You might try getting
in touch with them to see if they're still in print.  I'm sure I have mine
hidden away somewhere.

				Lorne Schachter
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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 14:46:41 EST
From: Geetha Seshaaiyar <IO20004@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,sci.physics
Subject: de Gennes

I am looking for a book by de Gennes, P.G.by de
Title: The Physics of Liquid Crystals
This book may be out of print.
If you have this book and would like to sell it
please send me an e-mail.
Thank you.
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Feynman Lectures on Physics
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:06:57 GMT

I am about to get "Feynman Lectures on Physics". As no-one in oz has it
one the shelf, I will be ordering direct from the US.

1.  Could someone comment on the different editions? I am thinking of getting
    the commemorative edition.

2.  A good place to order.

TNX
~Paul

Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: jch3254@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.C. Handley)
Subject: fourier optics, DIP
Originator: jch3254@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: isc
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:51:22 GMT

The following books are for sale. Hard cover. Like new.
Rarely used if ever :-)
Price includes postage (book rate).

Introduction to Fourier Optics by Joseph Goodman.....$60.
(this is the latest McGraw-Hill Classics edition)

Digital Picture Processing, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed.
 by Rosenfeld and Kak............$60 for the set.

If you need info on contents, drop me a line.

John C. Handley                        jch3254@ultb.isc.rit.edu
Center for Imaging Science    Rochester Institute of Technology
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Wednesday, 16 Dec 1992 15:12:19 EST
From: Geetha Seshaaiyar <IO20004@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: de Gennes

I'm looking for a book by P.G. de Gennes.
Title: The Physics of Liquid Crystals
If you a copy for sale, or know of a place that
does, please send me an e-mail.
Thank you very much.
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: rmc@davidge.com (Robert Cianchette)
Subject: Re: Out of date O'Reilly book woes...
Organization: Davidge Data Systems Corp., NYC, NY
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:15:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.223700.13768@olaf.wellesley.edu> lhawkins@annie.wellesley.edu (R. Lee Hawkins) writes:
>First off, let me say that I really like most, if not all, of the
>O'Reilly handbooks.  I am also happy that they revise things
>periodically.  With this in mind, I have noticed a significant 
>'gotcha' with the way they do business.  Here it is:
>  (stuff regarding purchase of outdated edition and correspondence
>   with O'Reilly deleted)

I can sympathize with your plight, having recently purchased a copy of
a Peter Norton PC book (looked brand new, last copy they had, required
for a class) only to discover that it had come out before the 486 chip.
However, you are barking up the wrong tree.  It is NOT the publisher's
fault, it's the book dealers.  An out of date edition should be on a
discount shelf or returned to the publisher.  O'Reilly publishes terrific
books at reasonable prices (for a technical publisher).  I suggest you
harass your book dealer, or buy direct from the publisher.

Robert

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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Feynman lectures: problems?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:24:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.155353.3385@inmet.camb.inmet.com>, bwhite@cobra.camb.inmet.com (Bill White) writes:
> I have met a number of engineers who used the Feynmann lectures
> for their physics classes - many at Caltech.  They have claimed
> that there is a collection of problems (and perhaps solutions)
> that goes with the books.

I have looked in the US BIP, and there SEEMS to be:
3 vol paperback
ditto plus 2 vol of problems

3vol hard back
ditto plus 2 vol problem

3 vol 'commemorative edition'

Plus individual ISBNs for each of the individual volumes. What I THINK I want is
the 3 vol com ed, plus the 2 vol of problems and examples.

Lets hope someone can illuminate this one...

~Paul
From: ehling@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Teresa A. Ehling)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: New book on Nanotechnology
Date: 17 Dec 1992 19:47:14 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rice-chex.ai.mit.edu

Now available from the MIT Press!




NANOTECHNOLOGY
Research and Perspectives

edited by BC Crandall and James Lewis

Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science 
are converging on the capacity to control, with  molecular 
precision, the structure and function of matter. These twenty 
original contributions provide the first broad-based 
multidisciplinary definition and examination of the 
revolutionary new discipline of molecular engineering, or 
nanotechnology. They address both the promise as well as the 
economic, environmental, and cultural challenges of this 
emerging atomic-scale technology.
  Leaders in their field describe current technologies that 
feed into nanotechnology -- atomic imaging and positioning, 
protein engineering, and the de novo design and synthesis of 
self-assembling molecular structures. They present 
development strategies for coordinating recent work in 
chemistry, biotechnology, and scanning-probe microscopy in 
order to successfully design and engineer molecular systems. 
They also explore advances in molecular and quantum 
electronics as well as reversible computational systems and 
the fundamental physical constraints on computation. 
Additional chapters discuss research efforts in Japan and 
present the prospects of nanotechnology as seen from the 
perspective of a microtechnologist.
  The final section looks at the implications of success, 
including the prospects of enormous computational power and 
the radical consequences of molecular mechanical systems in 
the fields of medicine and life extension. 


Contributors: Robert Birge. Federico Capasso. BC Crandall. 
K. Eric Drexler. Gregory Fahy. Richard Feynman. John Foster. 
Tracy Handel. Bill Joy. Arthur Kantrowitz. Joseph Mallon. 
Norman Margolus. Ralph Merkle. Lester Milbrath. Gordon 
Tullock. Hiroyuki Sasabe. Michael Ward.


ISBN 0-262-03195-7   CRANH
381 pp. -- 136 illus., 29 in color 
$39.95, hardcover


From your enlightened bookseller or order directly from 
The MIT Press.

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From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
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Subject: NEW BOOK AVAILABLE: Garfinkel's NeXTSTEP Programming
Keywords: nextstep,garfinkel
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:41:21 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

NextSTEP Programming Step One: Object-Oriented Applications
by S. Garfinkel and M. Mahoney
Springer Verlag / 600 pages / Cloth with Disk 
ISBN 0-387-97884-4 / $39.95 
 
This book teaches programming techniques for NeXTstep, 
including an introduction to the new 3.0 release, via the 
creation of actual applications.  This book has been class-
room-tested in courses on computer programming and software 
development, and its object-oriented step-by-step examples have 
been designed to make custom programming easy for the corporate 
environment.  The accompanying diskette contains source code 
for all programs in the book and a tutorial for InterfaceBuilder.  
A reply card for ordering a CD-ROM with more extensive examples, 
programs, and tutorials is also included.

Table of Contents (chapters):

Preface 
 
 1.	Intro to the NeXTSTEP Graphical User Interface
 2.	NeXTSTEP Development Tools
 3.	Creating a Simple Application with Interface Builder
 4.	Creating an Application without Interface Builder
 5.	Building a Project:  A Four-Function Calculator
 6.	Nibs and Icons
 7.	Delegation and Resizing
 8.	Events and Responders
 9.	Mach and the Window Server
10.	MathPaper and Multiple Windows
11.	Spawning Multiple Processes and the Text Object
12.	Text and Rich Text
13.	Saving, Loading, and Printing
14.	Drawing with Display PostScript
15.	Draw Yourself:  All About NeXTSTEP Views
16.	GraphPaper:  A Multi-Threaded Application with a Display List
17.	Color
18.	View Resizing and Mouse Tracking
19.	Zooming and Saving Graphics Files
20.	The Pasteboard and Services
21.	Preferences and Defaults
 
Appendix A:	Source Code Listings
Appendix B:	References
Index
 
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: chapman@ims.com (Dave Chapman)
Subject: Internet Literature Search
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:03:22 GMT

Is there a way to do technical/scientific literature searches via the
internet?

Thank you,
-- 
Dave Chapman   	       	       	    | chapman@ims.com
Integrated Measurement Systems	    |
9525 SW Gemini Dr.		    | work 503 626 5373
Beaverton, Oregon 97005 	    |
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: Feynman Lectures on Physics
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:18:25 GMT

zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

>1.  Could someone comment on the different editions? I am thinking of getting
>    the commemorative edition.

   Casual examination gave me the impression that the commemorative edition
only differs in having a few pages of tributes at the beginning.

   Feynman refers to a lecture about inertial guidance systems which was
accidentally omitted.  I think it would have been nice if former students
had been enlisted try to reconstruct it.
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Meikle)
Subject: Re: Libes book on Obfuscated C
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:08:55 GMT

In article <BzCCxI.8BC@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Has anybody seen Don Libes' book on Obfuscated C yet, and if so, would 
>they like to comment (or even post a thumbnail review)?

Don Libes
Obfuscated C & other mysteries
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
0471578053
$55.95 in Canada (if you peel off the Wiley Canada sticker, it's $39.95 US)

Forty articles gathered from various sources -- half of them are obfuscated
C contest stuff, half of them minor useful arcana dealt with in a practical,
informal way.  Did we want more or less obfuscation? :-)

If you like the obfuscated C contest, this really is a lot of fun.  And the
inclusion of useful information means you can justify buying it for work.
Er, I mean, combines delight & instruction.  And, in the tradition of _Life
with UNIX_, there are a lot of pointers to other sources of information:
book recommendations, addresses, and lots of references in the articles.
An all-round nifty piece of work.

Brace for minor grumpiness:

This book is wildly overpriced -- I don't know quite what goes on in the
heads of those Wiley people.  Yeah, they stuck a disk in the back with the
source, but even with the extra cost/pain that involves for publishers, this
book should be no more than $30.00 Canadian and $25 US.  It looks like the
technical nature of the material confused them, & they thought they ought to
jack the price up to technical-book levels.  Too bad -- they'd have sold a
lot more of this at a lower price.  I can think of a couple of people 
who might have received this as a Christmas present if it wasn't so strangely
priced.  I'm kind of surprised that publishers are still missing the market
this widely.  Technical market == mass market these days, in a lot of ways,
& there's not much excuse anymore for artificially inflated prices like this.
-- 
Barry Meikle                                  University of Toronto Bookstore
1-416-978-7925 phone                214 College Street, Toronto, Ont. M5T 3A1
1-416-978-7242 fax                                meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
"They were all of them fond of quotations" - Hunting of the Snark
From: chedley@carthago.intel.com (CHEDLEY_AOURIRI)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Market Trends
Keywords: IBM
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:33:30 GMT
Reply-To: chedley@carthago.intel.com (CHEDLEY_AOURIRI)
Organization: Intel-Corp,_Hillsboro,_Oregon

In article <1gnqhuINNll2@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, ltaylor@blinky.East.Sun.COM (Laura Taylor) writes:
|> 
|> Why are so many of the high-technology stocks going down just
|> because IBM is? It looks as though a huge lot of high-tech
|> stocks are following IBM's fall. I am wondering if they will
|> rebound at some point even if IBM continues to fall.
|> 
Well, INTEL'stock went up $8 since the IBM announcement...!!!
I suspect many of those who sold IBM had to park the money somewhere.

On a more general note, it seems that the stock market is over-heating now.
The volume in the otc stocks has exceeded the NYSE for several sessions. 
Speculation is rampant, and all the pre-election gloom of just a few ago
has gone. Put options premiums are ridiculously low, and everything is rosy 
once again. If this is Clinton's honeymoon on Wall Street, watch out after Jan-20, 93
Meanwhile, enjoy the ride and have a Happy holidays,..
-- 
..CHEDLEY..
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From: jcarroll@bach.udel.edu (James Carroll)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: NBR (was Re: Cassie Seifert)
Keywords: NBR
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:18:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: CNS User Services, University of Delaware

In article <16DEC199222194390@csa2.lbl.gov> schindler@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
>
>Who is that bozo that fills in for Paul Kangus?  He always reads all the 
>indices down to the last decimal point.  What do I care if the Wilshire 5000
>closed down 30.672 instead of down just 30?
>
>Aaron "Wishing all of you the best of good buys!" Schindler

If you are refering to Scott Gurvey, he is their NY correspondent/reporter.

(I must be procrastinating big time if I'm responding to this!)

-James
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I've been feeling kinda wild since I turned seventeen | Then I was a saint
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-jcarroll@brahms.udel.edu-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Like An Animal"
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: cs101a64@ih-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu (cs101 student)
Subject: Re: S&P index options ?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:23:30 GMT

In article <19490003@hprpcd.rose.hp.com> russg@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Russ  
Grover) writes:
> 
> > I'm thinking about buying some puts on a broad stock market index to  
hedge
> against a "correction", and it seems the most heavily traded options are  
all
> S&P 100.  
I prefer value investing as a hedge against a bear market.  Stocks never  
expire worthless (unless they go bankrupt), and some stocks will dodge the  
bullet in every bear market.  Value investing hedges against a bear market  
in two ways: expectations for value stocks are so low that their analysts  
are difficult to disappoint and easy to please, and value stocks are  
scarcest at market peaks, automatically forcing value investors into heavy  
cash positions.  I recommend stocks selling at 2/3 of book value or less  
and with either an earnings yield at least 4/3 that of AAA bonds (PE in  
the single digits) or a dividend yield at least 2/3 that of AAA bonds (or  
about 5 1/2%).  Stocks that fit this profile include British Steel,  
Travelers, Ahmanson, and Aetna Life and Casualty.
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
Subject: Re: Rationality of the stock market (NOT!)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:39:58 GMT

cs101a64@dcl-nxt03.cso.uiuc.edu (cs101 student) writes:

>Has it ever struck you that Wall Streeters behave as though the stock  
>market were rational?  When analysts justify their buy/hold/sell ratings,  
>they always talk about the outlooks of the companies and give scant  
>attention to the price/book value (or PE) ratio.  It seems that Wall  
>Street believes that if a company performs well, its stock price can only  
>rise.  

I would think that good performance would contribute to a rising
stock price.

>On the other hand, when a company has problems (which are sometimes  
>blown out of proportion), Wall Street believes that buying its stock is a  
>fast track to poverty.  

and that bad performance would contribute to a falling stock price.

>Wall Street can never seem to realize that the  
>popular opinion of a stock is already be reflected in its stock price  

Well, I guess Wall Street has a lot to learn about the stock market.

>(just look at the Nifty Fifty in 1973 and Chrysler in late 1990).  For  
>this reason, aggressive growth investing is very popular, and buying  
>British Steel or Travelers today would make you the Wall Street  
>laughingstock (until these large, mature companies recover and make their  
>shareholders rich).

I think Keynes once said that the stock market is like 
trying to guess the winner of a beauty contest. You don't want
to select the girl who is most appealing to YOU, but the one
who is most appealing to the most OTHER people. Who in turn
are following the same strategy, so ..

The point is, if British Steel is unattractive to Wall Street
and other investors, how can it's stock rise? (I.e., if no
one likes the stock, who will buy it?) It doesn't seem to
have great prospects of huge growth. And, steel companies
naturally have a big book value; it takes much more money
to buy the equipment for a steel foundry than for a software
factory. 

[Steel is not a bad buy for a recovery, because
when the economy comes out of a recession you do need more
steel. And the depression of the steel markets because of
production from the Soviet Union is unlikely to continue
because of the economic conditions there. But, steel stocks
have risen so much already this fall that there might not
be much further up for them to go.]

-Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: paul@panix.com (Paul Gatker)
Subject: Re: triple witching hour causes market instability today
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:42:35 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Dec18.231502.5521@unocal.com> stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:


>The DJIA jumped 44 points (1.3%) today on 50% heavier than average trading.


 How much of this jump was solid market bullishness, and how much was based
on program trading due to expirations on options and futures? 

 We'll all know sometime Monday.


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