Re: [Phys-l] algebra

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I, of course, was more interested in the Lab. equipment when I toured  
the Patrice Lumumba U.  The intro lab included apps. that I required  
explanation.  One I remember was a non-linear oscillator.  The apps.  
were very well made, all imported from the Czech Socialist Republic.

bc incorporated the photo's of Student's t and propagation of errors  
posters in the 133 (intermediate lab.) manual.


On 2009, Jul 15, , at 17:40, Jack Uretsky wrote:

> Some mathematicians from the former USSR, who are now at American
> Universities, are publishing some of the textbooks that were used in
> former days.  We have had swome awesome post docs who used such  
> texts for
> their early education.  I invite you all to take a look at some of  
> these
> texts.  One, that I have in front of me right now, is Gelfand and  
> Shen, "
> "Algebra" (Birhauser 1993).  It has a mass of 300 g, and a cost
> proportional to its mass.  There are just a few problems per topic.
> To give you the flavor of the book, it starts with a discussion of why
> does multiplication of 5 by 3 give the same result as  
> multiplication of 3
> by 5.