THE contents of this volume fall into three clearly marked sections. Chapters 1–4 (pp. 1–105) lead up to the location and calculation of the real roots of a real algebraic equation ; the cubic and ...

Elementary set theory and solution sets of systems of linear equations. An introduction to proofs and the axiomatic methods through a study of the vector space axioms. Linear analytic geometry. Linear ...

Some important points to revise from the chapter are: • An equation of the form ax + by + c = 0, where a, b and c are real numbers, such that a and b are not both zero, is called a linear equation in ...

Constraint Programming (CP) has been successful in a number of combinatorial search and discrete optimisation problems. Yet other more traditional approaches, such as Integer Programming (IP), can ...