Sounds like a very interesting book. Thanks for the heads-up. David H. Bailey -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Shallit Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:28 AM To: math-fun@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [math-fun] new book, _Automatic Sequences_ Jean-Paul Allouche and I are pleased to announce the publication of our book (AS)^2, also known as Automatic Sequences: Theory, Applications, Generalizations by Cambridge University Press (2003), ISBN 0-521-82332-3. It is currently selling for US $50 on amazon.com. This book is about the class of sequences generated by finite automata, their generalizations, and applications to number theory and theoretical physics. The book has 571+xvi pages, 1600 citations to the literature, 460 exercises, 85 open problems, 1 musical score, and 2 jokes in the index. It will be of interest to number theorists and theoretical computer scientists. The web page for the book, http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/asas.html has a table of contents and other information. Jeffrey Shallit, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca URL = http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/ _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun