Books

2007-02-24 05:55:00

I got a copy of The Dragonriders of Pern, an omnibus containing the first three Pern books by Anne McCaffrey, as well as Handbook of Analysis and Its Foundations by Eric Schechter.

The Pern book is great, just as it was the first time I read it; I hope that I'll be able to get the others in the series once I've finished with it.

The analysis book seems to be pretty cool. I've only read the first chapter so far, but I like what I've seen. The first chapter covers basics: what is an operation, what is ZF set theory, products of sets, etc. In particular, the idea of considering a product of sets as a collection of functions is something I've never seen before that seems like it may be interesting, possibly. I'll have to see whether (and how) it's used later in the book.