Talk:Gradshteyn and Ryzhik

Superscript numbers
As stated in the English(-only) book, corrections were incorporated into the book with each new print run. In order to indicate updated table entries, small superscript numbers reflecting a "revision code" were added to the table entry numbers, starting with the third print run. Accordingly, there are no superscript numbers smaller than "3".

While the superscript numbers for editions 6 and higher (with superscript numbers 10 and higher) are clearly documented, I could not find any (non-ambiguous) information for superscripts 3 to 9 (except for superscript 7), which would allow to correlate superscript numbers with editions.

Therefore, if you own a copy of the English edition of Gradstheyn and Ryzhik printed between 1965 and 1999 (any edition prior to 6), could you please check the front matter and printer's key for the edition and print run / year of your particular copy, search for the highest superscript number used in your book, and report his information here?

These are the superscript numbers already known (still needs verification):


 * "3": unknown edition (19??), 3. printing (1967 or 1969)
 * "4": 4. corrected and enlarged edition (1980) ISBN 0-12-294760-6, 4. printing (1983)
 * "5": 4. corrected and enlarged edition (19??), 5. printing (19??)
 * "6": 4. corrected and enlarged edition (19??), 6. printing (19??)
 * "7": 4. corrected and enlarged edition (1980) ISBN 0-12-294760-6, 7. printing (1990)
 * "8": 4. or 5. edition (19??)
 * "9": 4. or 5. edition (19??)
 * "10": 6. edition (2000); also the Chinese reprint edition
 * "11": 7. edition (2007); also the Chinese reprint edition and the Russian translation edition
 * "12": 8. edition (2014/2015)

Notes:
 * The first English edition (1965) is often called "fourth edition" for it is a translation of the fourth Russian edition and has no edition number by itself. Since 1994 it is often referred to as 3. edition counting down the editions from the 5. edition. Also, some internet sources mix up editions and printings. Finally, it is not known, if the 1980 edition started with print run 1 or a higher number.
 * The CD-ROM edition of the 5th edition (1996) may have a different superscript number from the paper edition (1994).

Thanks. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:29, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This review talks about a first printing of the expanded fourth edition in 1980, so it is possible that both, the 1965 and the 1980 editions saw 3rd printings. In this case, the superscript "3" would likely belong to the 1980 edition, not the 1965 edition, even if a 3rd printing of the 1965 edition is documented in 1967/1969 as well.
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 10:47, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I did not expect it would be so difficult to track down this bit of history in order to properly document it in the article...
 * Is there nobody who owns a copy of the English edition of Gradstheyn and Ryzhik printed between 1965 and 1999 (any edition prior to 6) and willing to spend half an hour to check the front matter and printer's key for the edition and print run / year of your copy and to search for the highest superscript number used in your book?
 * --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:01, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

ISSNs
Regarding, this edit:, what is wrong with including issn's? Uanfala (talk) 11:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Well basically, ISSNs should really only be included when the journal has a good chance of being confused with a different publication (e.g. two journals of the same name), or that it's a really obscure journal that would be hard to find by its name alone. For publications like Mathematics of Computation, they are hardly needed, since ISSNs act more or less as disambiguators. No style guide includes them for this reason. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 11:35, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Material from the fifth Russian or third German-English edition incorporated in any of the English editions?
It might be interesting to know for the readers (and perhaps even for the current maintainers of the work, if they don't know it already), if any of the errata fixes or additions for the fifth Russian (1971) or the third German(-English) (1981) edition were ever incorporated into the series of the English(-only) editions, or are basically lost to history.

What is known is that the English(-only) series of editions was originally (1965) based on the fourth Russian edition (1962/1963). It is also known that the third German(-English) edition incorporated material from the fifth Russian edition, but not if any of this was later incorporated in the English(-only) editions, which was a separate branch rather than a derivation of the German(-English) branch.

So far, I could not find any information about this. The forewords of the fourth (1980), fifth (1994), or sixth (2000) English editions might give hints on this perhaps, but I don't have access to them. One could assume that by now (decades later) any useful improvements from those two abandoned branches must have made it into the still actively maintained English edition, but it is better to know explicitly (and then state so in the article) than only relying on likelihoods. So, does somebody know anything about it?

In this context it might also be interesting to find any published errata related to the fifth Russian and the third German(-English) edition.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 13:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)