ODE by V.I Arnold (doubts about publishers)

[Julano]

Hi everyone!

I'm thinking of buying Arnold's book of ODE, but looking for it on the internet I have found two publishers which have this book printed: MIT Press and Springer. The main question is: which edition is better?

Both editions haven't the same quantity of pages, maybe because of their dimensions, but it makes me think that they haven't the same contents (like the edition of publisher "Rubiños" which doesn't have some sections).

Thanks a lot,

Julano

 

[JorisL]

Can't you look into the table of contents? That would be a good indication.

Look at chapters and the length of those chapters specifically.

EDIT:
I found this review on amazon which should clarify the differences

Be aware there are 2 versions of this book
available in English; this one from MIT press
is (contrary to one of the reviews above) is
translated from the *first* Russian edition;
there is another version from Springer-Verlag
translated from the *third* Russian edition.
They're translated by different people so
some wording etc is different but otherwise
they're similar, though not identical. The
later edition has some reworked passages
and modest amount of new material, but it's
not a hugely different book.
Both are excellent, are are all the other
books & papers I've seen by V.I. Arnol'd.

 

[Julano]

Can't you look into the table of contents? That would be a good indication.

Look at chapters and the length of those chapters specifically.

EDIT:
I found this review on amazon which should clarify the differences

I could see the table of the Springer edition, only. MIT's table wasn't avaliable.

I didn't see that review, and it's the first one... Thanks for show me it. Thanks a lot for your help!

 

[JorisL]

I only saw the review the second time I opened the page as well.
It was after I noticed that the table of contents wasn't available for the mit press version.