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Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics

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Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics, fourth edition edited by David Nelson, Penguin,

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softcover, ISBN 978-0-141-03023-4. Specialist contributors include Nick Higham, author of numerical analysis and linear algebra entries.

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