1 Using a scientific calculator 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Keys of a scientific calculator 1 2 Numbers 8 2.1 Introduction 8 2.2 History of numbers 8 2.3 Positive numbers, negative numbers and integers 9 2.4 Prime and composite numbers 10 2.5 Square nu
Contents Preface to the Third Edition, vii Preface to the Second Edition, ix Preface to the First Edition, xi Preliminaries, 1 Part 1: Preliminaries, 1 Part 2: Algebraic Structures, 17 Part I---Basic Linear Algebra, 33 1 Vector Spaces, 35 Vector Spa