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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by WalterBright on Sunday June 01, 2014 @11:25AM (#7829449)
It's a second edition. The preface says it's a significant rewrite. I think that being from the 1960's it was before the practice of making superfluous new editions to drive new sales.

But I do share your questioning the need to constantly write new Calculus textbooks. I often read about complaints about public schools being stuck with "old" textbooks, as if grade school math, science, and history have somehow changed in the last few decades.

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Re:Don't buy the IEEE edition of my book by withdavidli on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:05AM (#7832241)
I think the "old textbooks" complaint is actually due to the books falling off the binding. I had a physics class where one of the books had the teacher's name in it x_X, and he was near retirement age.

When the recession hit a lot of students asked teachers whether the earlier edition texts were still okay for class. Most of my teachers completely understood the situation students are in financially, one teacher went on a tirade against the school's bookstore.

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