The publication of the Tex formatted version of Almgren's famous big regularity paper makes the original three-volume, 1700 page paper much easier to read. Especially, since Almgren developed the whole new machinery, it takes time for the beginning readers to become familiar with the terminology and to consult essential materials in the Appendix. Readers who have suffered reading the original three hand typed ``telephone books'' will appreciate this all-in-one book.

As in the title of the book, the paper provides a method to deal with the regularity problem of mass minimizing surfaces in higher codimension. This paper not only gives the optimal upper bound of the Hausdorff dimension of the singular sets, but also provides a possible approach to understand the structure of the singular sets of mass minimizing surfaces. This deep but famous paper contains several ingredients to be understood and explored. It is worthwhile for people who are interested in geometric measure theory to spend some time on reading it.

I purchased this book once before, but it...kinda got away from me...I just got this book just a few days ago, and I could not be more pleased. I have been analyzing these games on my own for almost 3 years now.

I am a Master, and I used to make a living by (mostly) teaching chess on the Internet.

This is an excellent book by a publisher, (Everyman Chess); that has already made a reputation of producing top-class chess books.

So what do you get when you buy this book? A lot - in my opinion. You get a welcome and an introduction by Tony Blair himself. Then there is an interesting chapter on the Brain-Games network...You get a chapter on the trophy, the history of the World Championship. Then you get a chapter on the biographies of the {previous} World Champions, with a game from each one of them. (An unexpected treat, to be sure!) Then you get a complete chart and review of all the games that Kramnik and Kasparov have played prior to this match. (They had a tie score prior to this match.) Then you get a chapter on the match, each game is sufficiently analyzed. You also get a chapter on summary and the future of chess. There are also a few nice photo's in the middle of the book.

The analysis is excellent, albeit somewhat brief. (People who are familiar with Keene's method and style will know what I am talking about.) Most important game details are covered; although it is virtually impossible to cover every single possibility.
{I spent about three-and-a-half hours going over five of the games ... while using Fritz 8.0 to look for any errors. I found none.}

BUY THIS BOOK:
# 1.) If you want to study the games of a recent World Championship.
# 2.) You are looking for some serious study material of what happens when two VERY good players meet across the chessboard.
# 3.) If you want to know how Kasparov, still the World's # 1 player by rating, managed to lose the World Title. (to anyone)
# 4.) If you are wanting so study the games DEEPLY... and try to improve.

DON'T BUY THIS BOOK:
# 1.) If you are looking for an extremely detailed analysis of each game.
# 2.) If you think you can just play over a few of these games and learn how to play like Kasparov or Kramnik.
# 3.) You are a beginner and looking to get better.
(Get Silman's books, and maybe Reinfeld's, "The Complete Chess Player," instead.)

All in all... a darn good buy for the money I spent.

I recommend that anyone looking to have some mischievous fun at chess should take up the the Budapest as an occasional surprise weapon. I found this book at a used book store for $5 a few years back and my investment has been paid back a 100-fold. The Budapest is great for quick kills versus weaker or similar strength players. A gross example: White N.N. (1600) - Me (2000), 1998; 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Bc5 4. Bg5?? Ne4! and white resigned after a few more moves and I was soon relaxing at Hardees while my competition was grinding out four-hour games. Of course 5. Bxd8 loses instantly to ...Bxf2#. Boryk's book is much more easily absorbed than Tseitlin & Glaskov's, Budapest for the Tournament Player, with its head-spinning variations and transpositions. Instead, Boryk offers numerous games with ideas and strategies for Black. Nevermind that this opening is not popular with the GM set where they have everything memorized out to 20-25 moves. This is a great opening for chess improvisors and tacticians out here in sub-master land that like to mix it up. If you can get this book at a bargain price -- pick it up!

I think it's a shame the 'Collected Stories', with its dull chronological order and unimaginative completeness, has come to supersede the four volumes specially prepared by Nabokov in the 1970s, which were, as his son and co-translator Dmitri says, 'painstakingly assorted and orchestrated by Nabokov using various criteria - theme, period, atmosphere, uniformity and variety'. the stories were translated with these volumes in mind, and to break up their order is to risk destroying Nabokov's carefully calculated voice.

The stories in 'Details of a Sunset', written between 1924 and 1935, mostly centre on the Russian emigre experience in Berlin Nabokov himself was living, as he struggled to write his first novels. It is a world of pale, starving writers, small, shabby rooms, dark, streetlamp-lit streets, jerky trams; a world in which present love affairs are bleak and deadly, and ideal ones are ruptured by misunderstanding or death; where reunions with lost family members are painfully inopportune.

this could all sound oppressively glum; what makes these stories sparkle is Nabokov's aggressively alert consciousness, his ability to literally light up the dreary by illuminating tiny, irrelevant details that combine to create magical tableaux - a focus on the material that produces an exciting spiritual rush.

Two stories here, 'A Bad Day' and 'Orache', would be later reworked in Nabokov's miraculous memoir 'Speak, Memory', and already the Russian's charged nostalgia exerts a magnetic pull. 'A Busy Man' is a little masterpiece about a hack writer who half-recollects the recollection of a childhood dream that may or may not have foretold his death on his 33rd birthday; 'A slice of life' is a sordid fait diver shot through with sympathy (and a rare excursion by the author into female first person narrative). 'A Guide to Berlin' is possibly the best story he wrote, a cartography not of famous landmarks, but the more hauntingly insistent humdrum - pipes waiting by the road to be dug in; dancing in a cafe; a huge tear on an actress' face in the cinema.

Clearly written and covering a lot of territory -- a good read/reference for anyone interested in modeling catalytic processes.

This book gives a unique picture of the New York Art world from the 1940s-1970s, plus the author's experiences in Russia, Germany and France; it tells of his emigration from Russia during the Revolution and from France during World War II. Includes meetings with peoplesuch as Jackie Kennedy, Igor Stravinsky and Marc Chagall. An inside view of the Wildenstein Gallery (the family has been much in the news these days), and of the elite world of buying and selling Impressionist and other masterpieces.

I read this book when in a Russian Liturature class. At the time I had a Russian girlfriend who actually lived in the apartment complex where the story took place. This made it interesting. It is in the same class and genre as "The Inspector General" or "Oblomov".

This book looks at multi-particle interactions of small number, mainly in terms of interactions of with small nuclei. The approach is mathematical, and a great deal of space is provided for examination of approximation methods.

The fourth chapter, however, gives examples for magnons and sum rules, which are more to my liking, as well as the very important case of varible numbers of particles.

This is a very informational book about Lenin. It is told in the third person form and describes Lenin's aspect of life. It shows him as a Russian hero and an American fear. I suggest this book to anyone that is doing a report on him. It gives more information than neccasery. The only drawback is on some topics it won't give many details.

This book is a good help to work with modems, the configuration and optimization is more simple using the instructions step by step. When I begun to read, understand more about how linux and the serial ports are working in the environment. I'll recommend this product if some person need to know more about this kind of devices.