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Title: A Good, Not Great, Book
Review: I give this book 4 stars. Well presented, lucid text. The reasons it is not a great text are:1) It uses phrases such as "it's easily seen", "it's clear", and "obviously". These phrases have no business in any textbook. Period.2) There are no answers provided for any of the problems. In my class for which I have this book, we are not provided solutions, only marked up homeworks. Confidence in understanding comes from working through the material and learning from your mistakes. That's not possible if we can't figure out where we're making mistakes. So, you have to either rely on your instructor (and whether they feel like sharing the answers) or you have to buy a book (which will probably be inferior to this one) that has the answers provided.
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