Hey!
I don’t believe it. Oliver is back! 
Grüße nach Bayern!
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Susan points to this Time photo essay: Good Day Sunshine. Stunning photos!
I love the web
Last night I finally had time to check out the Cornell University Library Math Book Collection that Craig found for me. They have lots of interesting books, and just for fun I looked for that book that I had trouble finding a week or two ago. And they have it! They really have it! Now, if I want to look something up, I don’t have to go to the library, I can just look it up on the net!
Of course, all the pages are pictures, not real text, so I can’t search them, but I wrote down the page numbers along with the equations. I don’t even know why I did this, but it sure is useful now!
If you want to see proof that the book is really the one, look at these pages from Felix Klein’s “Vorlesungen über die Theorie der elliptischen Modulfunktionen” and compare it to the pages you can see on this photo.
By the way, they also have an English translation of the other book on the photo, Lectures on the Ikosahedron, and virtually any other book by Felix Klein.
Thanks again for pointing out this great source to me, Craig! I guess I’ll have to mention you in the credits section of my thesis…
What luck that you found the very book you had been looking for. I’m glad I could make the connection for you.
This collection, by-the-way, is one of the first focused digital library conversion project done in the US. It was done between 1990-92. You can eveb order the books printed on acid-free paper and hardcover bound for $.09/page.
I was astonished at how many books they had scanned in. A lot of them are original German versions of famous math books.
What luck that you found the very book you had been looking for. I’m glad I could make the connection for you.
I’m really happy that I found it there. This might save me a lot of time!
This collection, by-the-way, is one of the first focused digital library conversion project done in the US. It was done between 1990-92. You can eveb order the books printed on acid-free paper and hardcover bound for $.09/page.
Yes, I saw that. I guess most books are cheaper this way than the originals would be if you still could buy them. But the book I was looking for was published in 1890 and reprinted in 1966 and has been out of print for a long time.
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Hey!
I don’t believe it. Oliver is back!
Grüße nach Bayern!
No worries… :-)
Cheers,
Oliver.