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.

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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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