Dear Jacob, You are absolutely right, I was very much excited and clear when I read Randy J.Read 's paper Improved Fourier coefficients for maps using phases from partial structures with errors. its a must read paper for all students like me. thanks S.Jayashankar Research Student Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Hannover Medical School Germany. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Jacob Keller <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > To understand the fundamentals of any discipline, I have always found it > completely worthwhile to go back to the original source, where the idea was > first discovered or presented. This is really, really valuable, although not > always possible. I wonder whether others agree with me about this...but I > feel pretty strongly about this matter. Often one can read many reviews on > some subject, which never really get to the gist of the matter, but when one > reads the original source, the subject is usually laid out clearly because > guess what: nobody knew it yet, so it had to be explained clearly. > Furthermore, one gets a sense of the excitement of discovery, and the > unsurety about some new proposed hypothesis which has not yet become > cannonized into fact. For this reason, it is sometimes even worthwhile to > saunter down to the...library! > > Jacob Keller > > ******************************************* > Jacob Pearson Keller > Northwestern University > Medical Scientist Training Program > Dallos Laboratory > F. Searle 1-240 > 2240 Campus Drive > Evanston IL 60208 > lab: 847.491.2438 > cel: 773.608.9185 > email: [log in to unmask] > ******************************************* >