Complex Analysis with Mathematica – using the CD

The CD included with the book contains about 450 MB of complicated data. The probability of at least one error somewhere is therefore rather high! If you have problems with the disk please read this carefully. The author has noted sporadic errors copying files from the CD to a hard disk, though these may be a function of the CD reader and the computer.

A more systematic error appears to exist in some production disks in Chapters 5 and 22 in the Notebooks directory. If you have trouble copying these under the operating system, try the following (if you do not mind rerunning the notebooks you might do C first):

A. Opening the files directly from the CD in Mathematica (I can usually get this to work on the disks I have had problems with) and then Save to a file on the Hard Disk (if you can identify the Section or Subsection where there is a problem trying saving the other sections first). This usually works.

B. Open the files directly from the CD in Mathematica and copy and paste the bits that are OK into a new file on your hard disk. I have found this to always work.

C. If neither A nor B work, please note that you already have a SECOND copy of the notebooks in the NotebooksNoOutput directory. These files, that contain all the prose, maths and input, were included very specifically to allow for the situation where a large file with one or more complex graphics has been corrupted, or where a shortage of memory made it difficult to work with the very big files that have all their output. Copy these to your hard drive instead. [The outputs in Chapter 5 can be regenerated in a matter of a few minutes. Chapter 22 needs rather longer if you want the full detail of the tilings in the printed edition, but again will only take a few minutes if you lower the iteration settings (as indeed is suggested in the text for a first run through).]

The author has encountered no situations where this combination of procedures fails.