Say what you will about academic papers, but I needed to know how to solve a tridiagonal matrix efficiently on a distributed computer, and damned if I didn't find some that told me how.
As a survey of the field, maybe papers in journals aren't so great, but as a way to find heavyweight answers to heavyweight questions? You bet your ass they're good.
(Of course my University pays through the nose so that I can do that, but that has no bearing on the format).
As a survey of the field, maybe papers in journals aren't so great, but as a way to find heavyweight answers to heavyweight questions? You bet your ass they're good.
(Of course my University pays through the nose so that I can do that, but that has no bearing on the format).