Re: Where I find Bessel function for Ada ?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:24:42 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:18:05 -0600, R. B. Love wrote:
>>> Do you work on comission?  That's a $700 book.
>> Wow, and these are used books! No, I bought it long time ago in 80's, my
>> student times. Is it out of print? I cannot imagine that, the book a must
>> like Janke-Emde-Loesch and Abramowitz-Stegun.
> 
> It's publication date is 1976, and it's out of print.
> 
> As to the price, read this article in the NY Times:
> <http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/the-13109-perlstein-paperback/>

Interesting.

IMO such important fundamental books should be made public.
 
> Online book dealers use pricing algorithms and software to
> track prices and sell lots of "rare but not collectible"
> books (in the words of the article) at extraordinarily high
> prices. The cover price for this book was $44.

A did a quick search, a used German edition is about 100 EUR

http://www.amazon.de/Mathematical-Functions-and-Their-Approximations/dp/0124599508

a used Russian one is just $12

http://www.alib.ru/bs.php4?uid=10010dbf3635e2cc97c468bcaf2a5f0c6d38

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de