Hello Michiel!

27 May 05 12:44, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>>>> I always had difficulties to understand what a /textbook/ in
 GK>>>> English speaking countries really is. There is a faint memory
 GK>>>> that it had something to do with the
"audience". Textbooks
 GK>>>> are for undergraduate students, or something like that?

 HT>>> What's a textbook in non-English speaking countries?!

 >> I don't know, since I'm still unsure about the exact meaning. ;)

 MvdV> As I understand it, it is a book that is considered a standard used 
 MvdV> for teaching the particular field. Landau and Lifschitz is a 
 MvdV> "textbook" on statistical mechanics f.e. Minnaert's
"de natuurkunde 
 MvdV> van het vrije veld" is a textbook on outdoor physics.

Yes, that comes close to what I already supposed.


Regards,
Gerrit

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