An exciting new textbook, and a request
Today I'd like to put out an appeal to readers. If you have a solid grasp of English and an interest in circuit complexity (no expertise required!), please consider helping proofread the forthcoming book "Boolean Function Complexity: Advances and Frontiers" by Stasys Jukna.
Stasys (whom I recently had the pleasure to meet at an enjoyable Dagstuhl seminar in Germany) is a talented researcher and a kind, gracious person; he's also worked tirelessly to produce high-quality textbooks for our community. I'm a long-time fan of his "Extremal Combinatorics: With Applications in Computer Science" which contains many gems of combinatorial reasoning in complexity theory.
His latest manuscript, to be published soon, promises to be a leading reference for circuit lower-bounds research. Although I've only read parts, it clearly achieves both depth and breadth; I really think anyone in the field could learn something new and useful here.
The main cause for concern is that Stasys (who hails from Lithuania) is not a native English speaker, and the text needs work in places to become grammatically correct and idiomatic. Also, it seems a full-time copy-editor is not available for this project.
So readers: by volunteering to proofread a chapter or two, you'll be doing a valuable service for present and future students of complexity theory. Language editing is the essential thing--you can skim over the equations, so it really doesn't take that long. (Of course, mathematical feedback is also welcome.)
User: friend
Password: catchthecat
Password: catchthecat
You can email Stasys your comments. The text is long (500+ pages), so if you do or are planning to do some editing, please enter your name, the chapters you'll edit, and a timeframe in the comments below. This will allow others to maximize our coverage of the draft.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Labels: complexity
6 Comments:
I see that volunteers are stepping up--great! Stasys's book page has the information on which chapters are being looked at; guess there's no need to duplicate that here.
By Andy D, at 2:42 PM
Thanks, Andy, for this your blog message. Several people have already taken chapters, and I have even obtained first corrections! This will definitely help students loving (circuit) complexity theory. I am and future readers will be thankful for their volunteer work.
B.t.w. instead putting a comment, people write directly to me what chapter they would like to look at. At the web page of the book is a table of the actual progress.
By Stasys Jukna, at 1:42 PM
I have printed out Chapter 11 and will
proofread it but I don't seem to be able to either email Stasys or put this info on the chart.
GREAT use of the blog to get this organized!
By GASARCH, at 2:20 PM
Thanks, Bill, a lot! I have "locked" Chapter 11 on the chart (web page of the book) as taken by you.
P.S. You can also send your comments to Andy.
By Stasys Jukna, at 11:32 AM
I am going to print out chapter 11 to, great blog and post this....Thanks
By bristol plasterer, at 10:08 AM
Forgot to say how fantastic the whole blog is and thoroughly enjoyed reading the chapters. Thankyou
By Bristol Plasterers, at 9:49 PM
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