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Owen Densmore

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

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I finally got mine, the sixth printing which has the massive
corrections found by Gowers's followers working like crazy on his blog
via comments:
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/pcm-errata-iii/
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pcm-errata-ii/

The book is truly wonderful, being not only a beautiful historical and
structural discussion of most of mathematics as we know it, but being
literate as well. Both Timothy and his editing staff deserve
congratulations. He even got computation theory nicely done, no mean
feat.

Anyone else reading this amazing book?

-- Owen

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Jochen Fromm-4

Re: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

I looked for it in the library, it is a huge and heavy book,
about 1034 pages. Impressive work, which covers indeed
most of mathematics as we know it. There is something
for everyone in this book, for Physicists for example the parts
about Vertex Operator Algebras and Lie Theory.

-J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Densmore" <[hidden email]>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
<[hidden email]>; "SFx Discuss" <[hidden email]>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:56 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

>I finally got mine, the sixth printing which has the massive corrections
>found by Gowers's followers working like crazy on his blog via comments:
> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/pcm-errata-iii/
> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pcm-errata-ii/
>
> The book is truly wonderful, being not only a beautiful historical and
> structural discussion of most of mathematics as we know it, but being
> literate as well. Both Timothy and his editing staff deserve
> congratulations. He even got computation theory nicely done, no mean
> feat.
>
> Anyone else reading this amazing book?
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

============================================================
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Owen Densmore

Re: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

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BTW: there is a digital pre-print version that has some of the
publisher's marginal comments. Let me know if you'd like to have a
copy.

-- Owen

On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

> I looked for it in the library, it is a huge and heavy book,
> about 1034 pages. Impressive work, which covers indeed
> most of mathematics as we know it. There is something
> for everyone in this book, for Physicists for example the parts
> about Vertex Operator Algebras and Lie Theory.
>
> -J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Densmore" <[hidden email]
> >
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[hidden email]
> >; "SFx Discuss" <[hidden email]>; <[hidden email]
> >
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:56 PM
> Subject: [FRIAM] The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
>
>
>> I finally got mine, the sixth printing which has the massive
>> corrections found by Gowers's followers working like crazy on his
>> blog via comments:
>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/pcm-errata-iii/
>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pcm-errata-ii/
>>
>> The book is truly wonderful, being not only a beautiful historical
>> and structural discussion of most of mathematics as we know it, but
>> being literate as well. Both Timothy and his editing staff deserve
>> congratulations. He even got computation theory nicely done, no
>> mean feat.
>>
>> Anyone else reading this amazing book?
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Joe Spinden

Re: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Please. It would certainly be nice to have a copy that did not give me
a workout every time I picked it up.

Joseph Spinden

On 4/25/10 9:07 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> BTW: there is a digital pre-print version that has some of the
> publisher's marginal comments. Let me know if you'd like to have a copy.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
>> I looked for it in the library, it is a huge and heavy book,
>> about 1034 pages. Impressive work, which covers indeed
>> most of mathematics as we know it. There is something
>> for everyone in this book, for Physicists for example the parts
>> about Vertex Operator Algebras and Lie Theory.
>>
>> -J.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Densmore" <[hidden email]>
>> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
>> <[hidden email]>; "SFx Discuss" <[hidden email]>;
>> <[hidden email]>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:56 PM
>> Subject: [FRIAM] The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
>>
>>
>>> I finally got mine, the sixth printing which has the massive
>>> corrections found by Gowers's followers working like crazy on his
>>> blog via comments:
>>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/pcm-errata-iii/
>>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pcm-errata-ii/
>>>
>>> The book is truly wonderful, being not only a beautiful historical
>>> and structural discussion of most of mathematics as we know it, but
>>> being literate as well. Both Timothy and his editing staff deserve
>>> congratulations. He even got computation theory nicely done, no
>>> mean feat.
>>>
>>> Anyone else reading this amazing book?
>>>
>>> -- Owen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>
>>
>> ============================================================
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

Joe Spinden

Re: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Apologies to the group for the spam. I thought I was just replying to Owen,

JS

On 4/26/10 10:06 AM, joseph spinden wrote:

> Please. It would certainly be nice to have a copy that did not give
> me a workout every time I picked it up.
>
> Joseph Spinden
>
>
>
> On 4/25/10 9:07 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>> BTW: there is a digital pre-print version that has some of the
>> publisher's marginal comments. Let me know if you'd like to have a
>> copy.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:23 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
>>
>>> I looked for it in the library, it is a huge and heavy book,
>>> about 1034 pages. Impressive work, which covers indeed
>>> most of mathematics as we know it. There is something
>>> for everyone in this book, for Physicists for example the parts
>>> about Vertex Operator Algebras and Lie Theory.
>>>
>>> -J.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Densmore"
>>> <[hidden email]>
>>> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
>>> <[hidden email]>; "SFx Discuss" <[hidden email]>;
>>> <[hidden email]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:56 PM
>>> Subject: [FRIAM] The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
>>>
>>>
>>>> I finally got mine, the sixth printing which has the massive
>>>> corrections found by Gowers's followers working like crazy on his
>>>> blog via comments:
>>>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/pcm-errata-iii/
>>>> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/pcm-errata-ii/
>>>>
>>>> The book is truly wonderful, being not only a beautiful historical
>>>> and structural discussion of most of mathematics as we know it, but
>>>> being literate as well. Both Timothy and his editing staff deserve
>>>> congratulations. He even got computation theory nicely done, no
>>>> mean feat.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else reading this amazing book?
>>>>
>>>> -- Owen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ============================================================
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>>
>>>
>>> ============================================================
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>
>>
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>>
>
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>