The paperback edition has a few errors. As of August 24, 2011, I can report on
them as follows:
(i) page
73, in the left side of formula (4.25), the (present) italic x should be
boldface x.
(Pointed out to me by Rui
Zhou in June, 2011. This error has been present in every edition so far,
including the original, going back more than 30 years.)
(ii) page 110, last part
of equation (4.92), the last appearance of the symbol alpha is wrong --- it
should be beta. (Pointed out by
Koji Uenishi---one of the translators of the Japanese
edition---in May 2011.)
(iii) pages 407-408, the text in the legend for
sub-figures 9.12b and 9.12c should be switched, and references to these
sub-figures in the text on pages 407 and 408 need to be changed (for example,
at the end of a paragraph in the main text on page 408, the reference for
Figure 9.12b should be to Figure 9.12c).
(Also pointed out by Koji Uenishi, in May
2011. This error too, was in all
previous editions. It would be
better to switch the actual sub-figures, rather than the legends and references
to the sub-figures, but that would entail a change in layout of the page, and
would be more difficult to execute.)
(iv) page 505, the line
after equation (10.25), near the end, has .../v)v] < rho_b.
and the second v here should
be removed. (Pointed out by Masaru
Nakano in June 2010. This error
was not in the original edition.)
(v) page 600, Figure
12.3. The horizontal axis for each
of the two diagrams corresponds to \omega_s/\omega (not to \omega_0/\omega).
Also on this page: line 2
after equation (12.4), should be .... faithfully at high frequencies.... (not
....faithfully at low frequencies).
(Errors on page 600 were found by Prof. Yomogida
of Hokkaido University, and passed along to me by Koji Uenishi
in May 2011. The first of these
errors, but not the second, was in the original edition.)
These errors noted above are further described in
the file
which attempts to show how the
corrected versions should appear, in the style of the paperback.