[Leica] RE: While it is happening (B. D. Colen)

[leicaman at sympatico.ca (Dan C)]

When I was a physics major in university, the standard classical mechanics
text was the one by Goldstein (first edition; dates me a bit).  When my
professor was my age, the text he used was a book by Whitaker.   I always
considered Goldstein to be a fairly difficult book, at least it was for me
when I was in 2nd year, but Whitaker's book makes Goldtein's look like a
high school text by comparison.  I don't know how I would have made it
through a course on mechanics if I had taken it using Whitaker as a text.
But that was the standard "back then".

I think we are just plain dummer now, not just in language skills..

-dan c.

At 09:43 AM 23-06-04 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
>You're absolutely correct, Mark; there are different standards. The
>problem, however, is that the formal standard has weakened enormously in
>the past 40 years, and having the second standard weakens it further, as
>the sloppy Email writing carries over into more formal communication. At
>least that's how I see it.
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