From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68579 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pontus Lurcock Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [OT] Street-Fighting Mathematics Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 23:17:10 +1200 Message-ID: <20110522111710.GL20248@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306063058 8892 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2011 11:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 11:17:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 22 13:17:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QO6f4-00021N-P6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACE9CAD23; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yvoq2dQ8Cntp; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74000CAD1E; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A979BCAD1E for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ySiSWDbFT9Ym for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE3DCAD13 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk (rae.talvi.net [89.16.174.99]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p4MBHArr031741 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 13:17:11 +0200 Original-Received: from pont by rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QO6ek-0005qd-6n for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 22 May 2011 12:17:10 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=89.16.174.99; country=GB; latitude=54.0000; longitude=-2.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=54.0000,-2.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rEKzha9k - 0aff2c2a7cf7 - 20110522 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68579 Archived-At: On Sun 22 May 2011, luigi scarso wrote: > Street-Fighting Mathematics > The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving > Sanjoy Mahajan > Foreword by Carver A. Mead > > The book is made with ConTeXt mkii > (so it's not a 100% off-topic, because we know that Sanjoy uses ConTeXt) Saw this in the university library the other week, and almost postted about it. I'd like to add: it is freely available avilable in PDF ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Mathematics.pdf ) and (if I remember rightly) the author effusively thanks the authors of ConTeXt (and the other free software used in the book's production) in three different places :-). Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________