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From: smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt)
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Subject: Re: Introductory books...
Keywords: books
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Date: 24 Jan 91 12:06:49 GMT
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In article <6929@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> bakker@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>In article <1991Jan22.173911.779@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> bnrmtl!stu4@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu writes:
>>I am wondering if anyone could suggest some introductory
>>level books in the area of Neural Networks.  Preferably 
>>something within a student's budget.

>Thanks to James Tizard, Patrick van der Smagt, Guszti Bartfai, Don Wunsch,
>Andy, Lilly Spirkovska and Nathan Brown.
>
Here're some more:

No formulas at all( ==> no good):
        %A M. McCord Nelson
        %A W. T. Illingworth
        %T A Practical Guide to Neural Nets
        %I Addison-Wesley
        %D 1990

Not so bad (with a page of erroneous formulas (if I remember well), and
#hidden layers isn't well described):
        %A Tharun Khanna
        %T Foundations of Neural Networks
        %I Addison-Wesley
        %D 1990


        Patrick K. Simpson, "Artificial Neural Systems",
        Pergamon Press, 1990

Finally:
        Hecht-Nielsen (Addison-Wesley, 1990)
nice but rather randomly pasted together.
Good in some aspects, less good in others.  Why did he
include topic such-and-such and not topic so-and-so?
Yet quite thorough at times.

				Patrick van der Smagt
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