[Edu-sig] Math book recommendation, creating addendums

[Dinu C. Gherman]

I've much enjoyed the math Python tutorials developed by 
Kirby Urner which made me revisit the corner of "books 
to be read when I'll finally have some time" on my own
book shelf at home where I found a truely well-illustra-
ted and heavy work of Conway and Guy:

  The Book of Numbers 
  John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy
  ISBN: 0-387-97993-X
  Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
 
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=038797993X

It is reminding me much of the spirit of Kirby's Python 
tutorials, somewhere located between fun, play, explora-
tion and learning, with the only disadvantage being the 
missing Python code...

This leads me to ask how much sense you think there would 
be in asking authors of such books for whatever type of 
"cooperation" in order to create something like online 
and/or interactive "addendums" to their works? 

Jeffrey Elkner has been a pioneer in that field "conver-
ting" Allen B. Downey's book "How to Think Like a Computer 
Scientist".

Regards,

Dinu

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Dinu C. Gherman
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