About the online copy of D. Skordev's book
"Computability in Combinatory Spaces:
An Algebraic Generalization of Abstract First Order Computability"
(published in 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht-Boston-London)
The copy in question is actually the result of a conversion (accompanied by a few corrections) of the electronic manuscript of the book. The paper version of the book, except for its first six pages, for two page numbers in the contents and for the preface, reproduces a camera-ready text, prepared by means of ChiWriter, version 3, and printed on a 9-pin dot matrix printer (ChiWriter is a word processor that is obsolete now, but it was quite popular about 1990). Up to a correction made in March 2015, the online copy accessible from the download links below is produced in May 2006 from the original ChiWriter files by converting them into PostScript format, then converting the resulting files into PDF format and finally merging the PDF files. The conversion to PostScript was done along the lines briefly described in the document at the above link. Namely after using the print-to-file ability of ChiWriter with a PostScript printer driver the obtained files were prefixed with an appropriate initialization file and the needed ChiWriter PostScript font files.
Download links for the online copy:
Beginning of the book (9 pages, 22 Kb)
(title page, dedication page, contents and preface) |
Main part of the book (320 pages, 1.7 Mb)
(everything else that was in the camera-ready text) |
Remark. The text in the main part has the same appearance (including pagination and line-breaks) as the corresponding text in the paper version, up to sizes and shapes of some symbols and to some corrections. Since the dedication page and the contents in the paper version also reproduce the corresponding pages of the camera-ready text, they look in the same way in the online copy too (with a difference only in the information about the start page number of the preface and in the page number of the second page of the contents). However, the preface in the paper version and the one in the online copy have differences not only in their appearance, but also in some parts of the text (the preface was not only typeset by the publisher, but also some editorial changes were done in it). The preface from the paper version of the book can be accessed (in HTML format, with corrected misprints) from here. (Let us mention that the paper version of the book contains also a series editor's preface written by Michiel Hazewinkel.)
Last modification of this file: March 24, 2015