Via Timothy Chow blogging at Terence Tao’s blog, I learned about outofprintmath, a kind of survey site for people to express their desire to have out of print math books brought back into print. One of the classic texts of information theory by Csiszár and Körner has been out of print for a while. Many grad students have been frustrated its unavailability (even the library copy is often checked out nearly permanently). There are (illegal) ways around this, but a photocopied book is just not the same as a real one you can take to a cafe and read.
Bobak (I think) has added Csiszár and Körner to outofprintmath. It’s number 51. Go vote!
July 19, 2008 at 3:10 am
I actually bought my copy of Csiszár and Körner from Amazon back in 2002. Ah, the golden days …
July 21, 2008 at 5:37 pm
It was me.
July 21, 2008 at 6:50 pm
[...] idea. For learning, we should have access to the good books. Already quite a few demands (See this blog for instance) for the Csiszar and Korner book. Man, the world sometime thinks [...]