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Because of the subtlety and abstractness of the subject, it is necessary to be more rigorous than is usual in engineering. I have attempted to soften this wherever possible by preceding the proof of difficult theorems both with some explanation of why the theorem js important and with an intuitive explanation of why it is true. An attempt has also been made to provide the simplest and most elementary proof of each theorem, and many of the proofs here are new. l have carefully avoided the rather obnoxious practice in many elementary textbooks of quoting obscure mathematical theorems in the middle of a proof to make it come out right. |
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