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Net Translations of Dead-Tree IT Classics

Posted by Cliff on from the immortality-thru-digital-reproduction dept.

slander writes "I have in my shelves a secondhand, bent-folded-stapled-and-mutilated copy of "Numerical Recipies". Thinking I could do better, I googled a little to find Numerical Recipies in the Universal Library. A very neat nerdy resource indeed. Slashdot's attention was drawn by a re-release of MathWorld in Nov 2001. What other dead-tree classics are hiding out there?"

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  1. Classics? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I'm not sure what you mean by "classics". Is MathWorld a "classic"? I don't mean that pejoratively -- I tend to think of a "classic" as something old and dusty, and MathWorld has only been around for 6 years or so.

    If you're just looking for online books, there are lots of them; e.g., here and here and here. Of course, almost all books for which the copyright has expired are online somewhere -- although very few, if any, IT books would fall into that category.

  2. Don't blindly trust NR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most experts in the field of numerical analysis have a low opinion of Numerical Recipies. Check out this page.