Dr. Lee D Carlson, a man that reads everything

14 points

15 years ago

Over the past few years, whenever I have needed a graduate mathematics textbook, I often found it reviewed on Amazon by the same person, again and again--and these were usually the only helpful (and incredibly detailed!) reviews. The reviews showed he had clearly comprehended the material within.

What is more amazing is that when I prodded outside of my field to physics and neuroscience, he was still the lead commenter on the references! Consider this.

http://www.amazon.com/Theoretical-Neuroscience-Computational-Mathematical-Modeling/dp/0262041995

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Fields-Strings-Course-Mathematicians/dp/0821820125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298141669&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Enumerative-Geometry-String-Theory-Sheldon/dp/0821836870/ref=pd_sim_b_3

What's even more phenomenal is that he has reviewed over a thousand books like this, a large number of them technical! These normally take months to read. Who is this guy? And how many people like that are there?

Here is his Amazon profile:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3EQQP0LD4Z375/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp

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