Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

This book, with minor revisions, is back in print from Dover Publications and can be purchased in paperback form at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc.

An e-book version is available at Amazon.

Bill Barnum's lovely animation of the first "Martin and the Dragon" story from chapter 8 of the book is available here.

Free software accompanying the book is also available.

This 1990 edition may be distributed in hardcopy form, for non-profit educational purposes, provided that no fee is charged to the recipient beyond photocopying costs. All other rights reserved. You may not redistribute the Postscript or PDF file, e.g., you may not put a copy on another web page, or include it on a CD-ROM.

Entire book -- Postscript (1.75 MB file)

Entire book -- PDF (1 MB file)

Figures missing from the book (780K PDF)

Free software accompanying this book is also available.

Materials provided by David S. Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University.