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Posted by Jerry Kuch Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:49:00 GMT
While reading book reviews on Amazon this morning, I encountered the following gem:
While I’m positive that this book will serve engineers well, I cannot recommend it to practitioners of pure mathematics, videlicit those who are not comfortable with the bloodied abortion that is mathematics to the engineer. It blows my mind that we ever got a man on the moon! A good example can be found in the first line of page 7. omegal=omega(l+(2*n+1)). Keep in mind that n is an element of the set of positive integers, their claim not mine. Now, if you solve for n you’ll find that this equation can only be satisfied for n=-1/2, clearly not an element of Z+! Perhaps rational numbers are included in the set of “integers for engineers.” Enigmatic despite the absurdity. And yet they seem to indicate that it holds for all n in the aforementioned set! I pray that I’ve missed something and that someone will embarrass me by pointing out my mistake because as irate as I am right now, blood will likely shoot out of my nose in the next 5 minutes and they’ll find my dead in my office at day’s end.
As an author, you know you’ve really reached a reader when he or she begins fulminating with fantasies of violence and injury directed at his or her own body rather than yours. Whether the book in question can be blamed for the reviewer’s use of “videlicit” remains unclear.