Robin Fairbairns wrote -- > care to offer a title, so i can go and browse in the cup shop? (or is > it out of print?) DJH Garling --- A course in Galois Theory. It may be, but ben does have friemds in the rioght places. > > > > It should be said that Hardy & Wright is an exception for its period. Never got on with it myself in them far off days (nor with Wittaker and Watson) ... now there is a formidable foursome to stand up to S's blandishments. > i wonder what proportion of the active members of this list are either > active (such as chris and tim) or ex- (such as me) mathematicians. > apart from sebastian, i can't think of many... > Quite a lot, I think (if one interprets mathematician and ex- widely enough:-) and even more are interested in high-qaulity techinical typesetting. chris