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To those of you who E_Mailed me about my Mattel post:

(1) You ain't telling me anything I don't already know
    from direct experience; I work in the University's
    Math Lab with the algebra and precalc-algebra students,
    and the majority of these folks tell me the same thing
    time after time: "I hated math in High School...I think
    math is tough...I was never any good at math, especially
    in High School...It just seems SO COMPLICATED..." Etc. etc.

(2) YOU know that it's *really* not that tough...I know it's
    really not that tough...but YOU must realize that our
    attitudes towards the subject are radically DIFFERENT
    than those of the poor buggers who are just now being
    exposed to symbolic math.  I don't mean to sound elitist
    or anything, but have you considered the nonzero
    possibility that attitudes like ours might, I say, just
    MIGHT be the exception, rather than the rule?  If it
    WEREN'T, then one would expect alot more people would
    be devoting themselves to mathematics, no?....

To the folks at sci.physics: I apologize for not "sticking to
the subject", i.e., Physics; I would also like to ask the
mathematically well-versed out there for some help/advice:

Can any of you suggest a good beginner's-level text in
Perturbation Theory?  I seek a book that has the following
requirements:

  (i) Introductory Level--not too much on the theoretical side
 (ii) Lots of worked examples
(iii) Lots of problems to work at the end of the chapter, and
      MOST IMPORTANTLY: ANSWERS IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK!

The reason that I pose this conundrum to you, the friendly
folk of sci.physics, is that as Physics-oriented people,
you are much more likely to know some good applied-math
texts; asking the sci.math folks would most likely net me
a list of theoretical texts explaining the "why it works"
aspect, and not the "how to do it"---which is what I'm after.

Thanks in advance!

T.R. Stone
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Sometimes a bit too tongue-in-cheek for His own Good..
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aspects, and not the "how to do it"