Some readers want a solution to every exercise. However, some professors who use the book don't want any solutions posted. As a compromise, I chose 10

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Some readers want a solution to every exercise. However, some professors who use the book don't want any solutions posted. As a compromise, I chose 10 problems each chapter and gave a complete solution to those problems. This should provide self-studiers with enough exercises to challenge themselves, while leaving enough problems without solutions for professors who want to assign problems without easily-attained solutions.

LaTeX is the program that nearly all mathematicians use to type up their work. It was used to make every modern math book you've ever read and every math research article published this year.

Bates College has a great introduction to LaTeX, packed with templates and lessons. You can access their webpage here. You can use the website Overleaf.com to typeset your documents into beautiful PDFs, or you can download a program to your computer. More can be found at the Bates website here.

Now, inevitably problems will arise. When they do, Google is of course your friend. Most of what I've learned has been through troubleshooting with Google, which usually directs me to some page on tex.stackexchange.com in which someone many years ago asked the same thing. I'll link to tex.stackexchange here but I'll admit that despite visiting their site literally thousands of times, until right now I've never gone to their homepage; Google always suggests the right page for me. Another good reference site is https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX. Google will also direct you there, but their main page also has an organized list of topics for you.

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