NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions 128
An anonymous reader writes "NIST announced the publishing of the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions reference text (967 pp), also available in digital form at the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. Access it with a MathML-enabled browser (Firefox or IE+plugin) to view equations as scalable text rather than bitmaps; the 3-D graphs can also be viewed with a VRML plugin for local rotating / zooming." The original Handbook of Mathematical Functions was published 46 years ago; the revision has been in the works for a decade.
Ob (Score:5, Funny)
Let the number of the post be defined by a monotonically increasing function f, such that the initial value of f is zero.
42 (Score:3, Funny)
That's all you need to know about maths.
967 pages? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:VRML! (Score:2, Funny)
I wouldn't bet on it either, for the same reason modern games aren't supplied in DOOM WAD files.
Re:Ob (Score:5, Funny)
f(x) = x satisfies that condition.
Perhaps you meant monotonically decreasing nonnegative function on the nonnegative reals with f(0) = 0, or something to that effect...
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Re:From my experience... (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a textbook; it assumes you basically know the math
That applies to every math book out there.
No, there is at least one mathematics book for which the statement does not hold. I don't have a constructive proof for this my claim, though, so I can't give you an example.
967 pages of mirth (Score:1, Funny)
I finally got around to reading the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
Turns out the Zeta function did it.
Only on Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)