THIS book is the outgrowth of a lengthy experience in training first-year electrical engineering students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The earlier chapters discuss complex numbers, ...

WE have read Prof. Woolsey Johnson's work with some interest: his style is clear, and the worked-out examples well adapted to elucidate the points the writer wishes to bring out. He appears to ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Jun., 1990), pp. 704-735 (32 pages) Ordinary differential equations can be recast into a nonlinear canonical form called an S-system. Evidence for ...

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