Timeline for Who is this guy : Z.A. Melzak (wrote Companion to Concrete Mathematics) ?
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| Feb 7, 2011 at 4:18 | vote | accept | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | ||
| Feb 7, 2011 at 4:00 | comment | added | Jérôme JEAN-CHARLES | Actually I found some other inofrmation : he is the author of a book called In search of the Fulcrum" literary autobiographical. And also a book called "Bypasses: A Simple Approach to Complexity" | |
| Feb 5, 2011 at 6:49 | comment | added | ansobol | Yes, the correct spelling is Zdzislaw. The "dz" here is pronounced by Poles roughly as "g" in "gym." Wikipedia has something to say on this name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw | |
| Feb 5, 2011 at 1:13 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Google gives approximately four million hits for Zdzislaw and about ten thousand for Zozislaw. I'd bet that the d-spelling is correct, and that the o-spelling at the UBC library is an example of "the more difficult reading is the stronger" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_difficilior_potior) applied to an English speaker transcribing a Polish name. | |
| Feb 5, 2011 at 0:58 | history | edited | David Eppstein | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 5, 2011 at 0:52 | history | answered | David Eppstein | CC BY-SA 2.5 |