Robert M. Mayo

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs

Nuclear Engineering

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

24 August 2001

Marc Brodsky (via e-mail)

CEO and Executive Director

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse

College Park, Maryland 20740

Every book is STOLEN! That is the only way that new literature appears in the physical sciences. If it were not for workplace allowances (and what should be encouragement) no one, save retirees, would write new texts.

On second though, perhaps your actions were justified. In fact, you may have taken your actions to the logical conclusion by buying up every copy in print and having a ritual book burning.

Signed, an anti-establishment physicist, embarrassed by your actions.

Robert M. Mayo