[math-fun] Bill Gosper's famous 1989 MIT talk now scanned
It is scanned and stored on the OEIS server. Direct URL to it: https://oeis.org/A309204/a309204.pdf It is linked to from 6 sequences right now, e.g. https://oeis.org/A309204 There are a lot of "intentionally blank" pages, because about half the originals were two-sided and half were not. It is a composite of two different paper copies, each of which had about half the pages unnumbered, and in a different order in each case. Here you get one copy of each side, and pages after 15 have been numbered in a fairly random order. What is really needed is 40 more pages from Bill explaining the formulas and the illustrations! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com
Hello, I passed the file to the OCR engine in Acrobat, the interesting feature of this program : it replaces the text properly in addition to recognize the few words in the document, please take copy of it : http://plouffe.fr/a309204.pdf Best regards, Simon Plouffe Le 2019-08-05 à 23:01, Neil Sloane a écrit :
It is scanned and stored on the OEIS server. Direct URL to it: https://oeis.org/A309204/a309204.pdf
It is linked to from 6 sequences right now, e.g. https://oeis.org/A309204
There are a lot of "intentionally blank" pages, because about half the originals were two-sided and half were not.
It is a composite of two different paper copies, each of which had about half the pages unnumbered, and in a different order in each case.
Here you get one copy of each side, and pages after 15 have been numbered in a fairly random order.
What is really needed is 40 more pages from Bill explaining the formulas and the illustrations!
Best regards Neil
Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
Simon, There must be times when it makes errors, no? (You said "it replaces the text ...") So one is tempted to say that one should also keep the original? Especially when the text is hard to predict! And Bill is always hard to predict! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:13 PM Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I passed the file to the OCR engine in Acrobat, the interesting feature of this program : it replaces the text properly in addition to recognize the few words in the document,
please take copy of it : http://plouffe.fr/a309204.pdf
Best regards, Simon Plouffe
Le 2019-08-05 à 23:01, Neil Sloane a écrit :
It is scanned and stored on the OEIS server. Direct URL to it: https://oeis.org/A309204/a309204.pdf
It is linked to from 6 sequences right now, e.g. https://oeis.org/A309204
There are a lot of "intentionally blank" pages, because about half the originals were two-sided and half were not.
It is a composite of two different paper copies, each of which had about half the pages unnumbered, and in a different order in each case.
Here you get one copy of each side, and pages after 15 have been numbered in a fairly random order.
What is really needed is 40 more pages from Bill explaining the formulas and the illustrations!
Best regards Neil
Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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Also the marginalia where somebody (Neil, probably) has noted OEIS sequence numbers, are probably very hard for OCR to handle. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 9:28 PM Neil Sloane <njasloane@gmail.com> wrote:
Simon, There must be times when it makes errors, no? (You said "it replaces the text ...") So one is tempted to say that one should also keep the original? Especially when the text is hard to predict! And Bill is always hard to predict!
Best regards Neil
Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:13 PM Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I passed the file to the OCR engine in Acrobat, the interesting feature of this program : it replaces the text properly in addition to recognize the few words in the document,
please take copy of it : http://plouffe.fr/a309204.pdf
Best regards, Simon Plouffe
Le 2019-08-05 à 23:01, Neil Sloane a écrit :
It is scanned and stored on the OEIS server. Direct URL to it: https://oeis.org/A309204/a309204.pdf
It is linked to from 6 sequences right now, e.g. https://oeis.org/A309204
There are a lot of "intentionally blank" pages, because about half the originals were two-sided and half were not.
It is a composite of two different paper copies, each of which had
about
half the pages unnumbered, and in a different order in each case.
Here you get one copy of each side, and pages after 15 have been numbered in a fairly random order.
What is really needed is 40 more pages from Bill explaining the formulas and the illustrations!
Best regards Neil
Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane@gmail.com _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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Simon Plouffe