Thursday, April 29, 2010

Page numbers please

If you are writing a paper and you reference a book, with regard to a specific concept or result, you should give the relevant page number of the book, so readers can find the relevant pages in the book.
I concede that certain times this may be unnecessary because one can find the relevant section using the table of contents or index.
However, I often get frustrated when I can not find it.

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