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!
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I actually bought my copy of Csiszár and Körner from Amazon back in 2002. Ah, the golden days …
It was me. 🙂
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Cambridge University Press will be publishing the latest edition of this classic at the end of 2010
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with apologies for the delay, Information Theory 2nd edition was published in the UK on Thursday June 30.
http://www.cambridge.org/9780521196819
My copy arrived today, it looks very impressive, new updates and a few new chapters.