09.11.2006 16:51
Cambridge University Press
CUP is quite a renowned and big editing house for accademic literature. Their books are reasonably expensive so I wonder why the can't invest a little in a good lectorate. I own two books from the "Cambrigde monographs on mathematical physics" series. One is "the Montvay Muenster", the bible in lattice field theory, the other one is Clifford Johnsons book on D Branes. To be honest,I love neither of them, but at t least the bible is unreplaceable. Both are not very clear in their argumentation, which is the authors fault. But Montvay Muenster has such a horrible lazy-style latex typesetting that it is unpleasant to read, just for that. And Johnsen is packed with typos, sometimes in formulae, where of I probabely only find 1/3, but also in text. Some of them a simple spell checker would notice. That's embarrassing.
yeah, I know there are also a lot of typos on this site, but I don't sell you the stuff for lots of money, right?
