9 Feb
2012
9 Feb
'12
1:45 p.m.
Hi all, I realise this is a little off-topic but a relative of mine has a birthday coming up and his father wants to get him a *useful* maths book - presumably relating in some way to his son's job as an academic studying electron clouds. He phoned and asked me about a book I had once when I visited but it was some 10 to 15 years ago and I have virtually no recollection of what it was - though he mentioned it included descriptions of binomials, Fourier series etc.etc. (Abramowitz and Stegun ?) Since unlike myself most on this list probably still have strong ties to formal academia I'm hoping someone can suggest a suitable book ? I did point him at wolfram.mathworld.com to look up references... bye Dave