last couple of chapters were added after the class was over. There is enough here to select from if this is a course
text. If you are reading this on your own then you can move through it as you please, though you will find that
the first five chapters are used more in the later parts than are chapters six and seven.
The pdf file that I’ve created is hyperlinked, so that you can click on an equation or section reference to
go to that point in the text. To return, there’s a Previous View button at the top or bottom of the reader or a
keyboard shortcut to do the same thing. [Command←on Mac, Alt←on Windows, Control←on Linux-GNU]
The contents and index pages are hyperlinked, and the contents also appear in the bookmark window.
If you’re using Acrobat Reader 5.0, you should enable the preference to smooth line art. Otherwise many
of the drawings will appear jagged. If you use 6.0 nothing seems to help.
I chose this font for the display version of the text because it appears better on the screen than does the
more common Times font. The choice of available mathematics fonts is more limited.
I have also provided a version of this text formatted for double-sided bound printing of the sort you can get
from commercial copiers.
I’d like to thank the students who found some, but probably not all, of the mistakes in the text. Also
Howard Gordon, who used it in his course and provided me with many suggestions for improvements.
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