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Let's see if we could use MO to put some pressure on certain publishers...

Although it is wonderful that it has been put online, I think it would make an even greater read if "Hodge Cycles, Motives and Shimura Varieties" by Deligne, Milne, Ogus and Shih would be (re)written in the latex typesetting (well, if I could understand its content..).

But enough about my opinion, what do you think? Which book(s) would you like to see "texified"? As customary in a CW question, one book per answer please.

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    $\begingroup$ I'm not a big fan of this question. What is it supposed to mean? Your favorite older math books? I can't imagine how it would be useful to anyone. $\endgroup$
    – Andy Putman
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    $\begingroup$ @Max : I am pretty dubious that a MO post will have any effect on a publisher. $\endgroup$
    – Andy Putman
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    $\begingroup$ My impression is that things are much more complicated than this. For example the LMS just reprinted Cassels-Froehlich and they had to try to get official permission from all the people who wrote all the articles first, and then some of them were dead etc etc. I think it all took a long time. Someone mentions EGA/SGA below but Grothendieck will not give his permission to reprint and actually explicitly asked people who were TeXifying bits of SGA to stop. I am almost certain that MO has epsilon role to play here. You need to talk direct to publishers and authors. $\endgroup$
    – Kevin Buzzard
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    $\begingroup$ I'm on the negative side for keeping this question, since it's too fuzzy and open-ended. Who owns published material is often a complicated issue. (I was actually contacted recently by a European Springer editor about who was next-of-kin to one of my deceased older brothers, who had edited his deceased thesis advisor's last book, which a former publisher had issued but which Springer wanted to reprint.) $\endgroup$
    – Jim Humphreys
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    $\begingroup$ Why go to the publishers? Why not round up five to ten people, agree on a common latex style, type the book up yourselves then put the source and result on a website somewhere? It may demand a lot of work and be illegal as hell, but copyright laws in science are morally wrong anyway. $\endgroup$
    – Gunnar Þór Magnússon
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EGA, with hyperlinks for easy navigation.

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    $\begingroup$ Hyperlinks are indeed very useful; it would be even better if it was easy way to go back to the page you were just reading. $\endgroup$
    – André Henriques
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    $\begingroup$ @André Most modern PDF-viewers come with a "back in the document" button that does what you are asking for; e.g., acrobat reader, okular, skim etc. $\endgroup$
    – Peter Krautzberger
    Commented May 13, 2011 at 17:09
  • $\begingroup$ @Peter Really? Where? I've never seen it in acrobat (and would be happy to be poited to it) $\endgroup$
    – Peter McNamara
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    $\begingroup$ @Peter McNamara: Reader is not really ideal. I have been using Foxit for some time and it is much faster, has back/forward buttons, lets you make bookmarks, etc. $\endgroup$
    – Qiaochu Yuan
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    $\begingroup$ ega.fppf.site ;-) $\endgroup$
    – Tim
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Milnor - Lectures on the h-cobordism theorem

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    $\begingroup$ Everything by Milnor. $\endgroup$
    – mephisto
    Commented May 13, 2011 at 18:47
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    – hce
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    $\begingroup$ Me too. Especially Morse Theory. $\endgroup$
    – drbobmeister
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    $\begingroup$ To be honest, I would definitely prefer the typewriter version of Morse Theory than the Texified version. This book is one of the few math book in typewritter style that managed to present readable (and in my opinion, even beautiful) math formulae. $\endgroup$
    – JSCB
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Atiyah - K-Theory

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  • $\begingroup$ I agree. Improve the index as well. $\endgroup$
    – Joe Johnson
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 1:45
  • $\begingroup$ I have LaTeXed form Chapter I through Appendix. Anyone interested? $\endgroup$
    – eltonjohn
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  • $\begingroup$ @eltonjohn Can I have it? $\endgroup$
    – Satwata Hans
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  • $\begingroup$ @Satwata Hans Look up this site --> mathmusic52.com/?query-8-page=1 $\endgroup$
    – eltonjohn
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All the SGA's. Note that SGA 1 and 2 already exists in TeX, and there is something for SGA 3 and 4.

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Rolfsen - Knots and Links

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Atiyah + Macdonald, Introduction to Commutative Algebra.

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    $\begingroup$ The AW typesetting if this book is pretty good already, isn't it? $\endgroup$
    – lhf
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    $\begingroup$ You haven't seen a paperback version of this. The printing, at least, is awful. $\endgroup$
    – Simon Rose
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    – lhf
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Marcus - Number Fields

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  • $\begingroup$ That's my favorite candidate for real typesetting for two reasons: the book is great and the typewritten text is awful to look at. And it was so at the time the book came out. $\endgroup$
    – lhf
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Chern - Complex manifolds without potential theory

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Leon Simon - Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory

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"Lectures on Chevalley Groups" - by Robert Steinberg

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  • $\begingroup$ A thorough search on the web will lead you to a TeXed/PDFed version of this. $\endgroup$
    – Denis Chaperon de Lauzières
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 17:42
  • $\begingroup$ Can you give a link? I can't find it. $\endgroup$
    – Najdorf
    Commented May 14, 2011 at 21:35
  • $\begingroup$ @Emmanuel Kowalski: I would appreciate that as well, I've been looking forever by now. $\endgroup$
    – Petrus
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  • $\begingroup$ Strangely I can't locate it any more either... The title page of the file claims the TeXing was done by C. Drupieski, but it does not seem to be on his home page... However there is the following PDF scan of the original(A. Ram says he got permission from Steinberg to make it available): math.wisc.edu/%7Eram/YaleNotes.pdf $\endgroup$
    – Denis Chaperon de Lauzières
    Commented May 16, 2011 at 21:46
  • $\begingroup$ I have now posted a copy of my LaTeX version from 2007 on my web page. It appears that some other folks also produced a LaTeX version in 2013. sites.google.com/site/chevalleygroups/notes $\endgroup$
    – Christopher Drupieski
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Palais - Foundations of global non–linear analysis

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Adams - Lectures on Lie Groups

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Stong - Notes on cobordism theory

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Paul Cohen - Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis.

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Robin Hartshorne's lecture notes on projective geometry. This appeared as a book and is now out of print. The pages appear to be photographs of pages produced with a typewriter, plus hand-drawn illustrations.

Maybe a wiki should be set up where volunteers can transcribe from the book. Permission from copyright owners might be easy to get if they're not interested in continuing to publish it themselves, and if they are, an attempt to get permission for such a wiki might pressure them to put it back in print with better typesetting.

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"Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms." by Griffiths and Morgan.

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Michael Reed. Abstract Non Linear Wave Equations.

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