"Thomas Dalton" wrote

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Aha. There is no adequate textbook for the typical [[Mathematical Tripos]] course. So a wikibook rendering is actually quite a sound idea; the main issue not being reliability, but the need to expand exposition.

There won't be one textbook for the entire Tripos, no... you have to get textbooks on each lecture course. Sometimes the textbook won't coincide exactly with the lecture course, but you can usually find one that covers a superset of the course, or two that cover the entire course between them.

Not so, really. If you did the Fluid Dynamics course as set up by George Batchelor, then, yes, the Batchelor book would be the 'book of the course'. But this is not typical.

Charles

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