Re: [gutvol-d] broadband penetration
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter van Holst" <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>
Oh, and by the way, she is in need of affordable science and math textbooks for teaching purposes. Having Shakespeare is all nice and dandy, but literature is not the foremost education priority over there. Last time I checked there weren't any available through Gutenberg at the pretty basic level they are needed.
The problem is that these textbooks need to be fairly recent. Science has changed too much since 1922 for any science textbook to be worth the effort to use in a classroom. Honestly, I'd point your sister to Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page). I don't know that any of the textbooks there would cover what she's looking for, but it has a better chance than anything we'd be able to do in PG. Josh
On 12/9/05, Joshua Hutchinson <joshua@hutchinson.net> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter van Holst" <walter.van.holst@xs4all.nl>
Oh, and by the way, she is in need of affordable science and math textbooks for teaching purposes. Having Shakespeare is all nice and dandy, but literature is not the foremost education priority over there. Last time I checked there weren't any available through Gutenberg at the pretty basic level they are needed.
The problem is that these textbooks need to be fairly recent. Science has changed too much since 1922 for any science textbook to be worth the effort to use in a classroom.
On the other hand, there are many pre-1923 maths texts, particularly at a basic level, which would be very useful. Away from pure pedagogy, we do already have a very interesting and very popular maths text in PG already -- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16713 Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Dudeney. It's consistently in the top 20 books downloaded from the main PG site, and has been wonderfully processed by DP (bias note: I scanned it :) ). The thing that continually surprises me is that we don't have an edition of Euclid's Elements in PG. I believe DP is working on Latex-ing a student edition of the first six books, but that's quite slow work. -- Jon Ingram
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