The documents are available in the form of compressed postscript
files and/or TeX dvi files via anonymous FTP from landau.mines.edu
(138.67.12.78), or via WWW browser if you click the appropriate
book title. For ftp, cd to the directory pub/samizdat. There
you will see directories for each document. Be sure to switch to binary
mode before transferring.
We recommend Ghostscript/Ghostview for viewing the postscript documents. You can pick up a copy for free from the Free Software Foundation. If you're stuck in the Dos/Windows world you can still use Ghostscript: click here to pick up Dos/Win binaries. Or check out Martin Cracauer's page Turning Win32 machines into something useful.
The inverse theory notes come with various Mathematica and TCL/TK code. At the moment we are reorganizing all this code, replacing the Mathematica demos with XLisp-Stat, so click on Inverse Theory above to see what is currently available. Additionally, in pub/samizdat you will see a directory called uga, which contains a preliminary release of Martin Smith's Uni-Processor Genetic Algorithm and associated class libraries. Presently this compiles under the Cfront C++ compiler. A gcc version is in the works. If C++ interests you, you might want to check out the new CWP Object-Oriented Optimization Library. Lots of additional free code is available from the Center for Wave Phenomena.
If you need help or want more information, contact
John Scales (email:
jscales@dix.mines.edu,
phone: 303- 273-3408) or
Martin Smith (email: martin@ner.com,
phone: 802- 296-2401).
Jon Claerbout has all or parts of several of his geophysics books available electronically. Click here to venture west to Stanford University.
Claerbout's
Classroom: free booksWhat's new? To office,
SEP
project, mirror in Europe,
book
home.
If you send email to jon@sep.stanford.edu containing the
words "Put me on your book email list", Jon will put your name on
a (confidential) mailing list. Prefer ftp?
John Baez, whose This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics is one of the very best things on the WWW, has a nice tutorial on general relativity. You can browse interactively or download the whole thing.
The Free Software Foundation maintains lists of freely accessible books on various topics. Hundreds of non-technical books including many of the great works of literature on-line from Books On-Line and Project Gutenberg.
Seismic Unix -- A Free (ANSI C), Instant Seismic Processing System
"mirror" of http://samizdat.mines.edu/ and http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/