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Title: A salad of typos
Review: I have had the misfortune to teach from several editions of this pathetic textbook. The later printings of the 3d edition, by Arfken alone, were quite free of mistakes and of typos. But the early printings of the 5th edition by Arfken and Weber are loaded with typos and have some errors. Most of these typos are in equations that were correct in the 3d edition.My students have had a hard time learning from this book.Also, the binding of this $99 book is cheap cardboard -- the hardcover edition does not really have a hard cover. All in all,this is a typical Elsevier product: inferior and expensive.
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