new book, _Automatic Sequences_

[Jeffrey Shallit]

Jean-Paul Allouche and I are pleased to announce the publication
of our book (AS)^2, also known as

        Automatic Sequences:  Theory, Applications, Generalizations

by Cambridge University Press (2003), ISBN 0-521-82332-3.  It is
currently selling for US $50 on amazon.com.

This book is about the class of sequences generated by finite automata,
their generalizations, and applications to number theory and
theoretical physics.  The book has 571+xvi pages, 1600 citations to the
literature, 460 exercises, 85 open problems, 1 musical score, and 2
jokes in the index.  It will be of interest to number theorists and
theoretical computer scientists.

The web page for the book,
        http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/asas.html
has a table of contents and other information.

Jeffrey Shallit, Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario  N2L 3G1 Canada shallit at graceland.uwaterloo.ca
URL = http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/