Stephen Abbott
Department of Mathematics
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT, USA
ISSN 0172-6056 ISSN 2197-5604 (electronic)
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
ISBN 978-1-4939-2711-1 ISBN 978-1-4939-2712-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2712-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937969
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 26-01
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