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Title: Classics are not always great.
Review: I've been told by many professors that this is *the* classic text on the topic. You might think this would make it *the* book to read on the topic, but it is definately *not* a classic introductory textbook. Everyone in my class complained about it. I found particularly frustrating it's hiding of important theorems, identities, etc. in examples rather than in the main flow of the text.
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