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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the MathWorks® Book Program for supporting the use of MATLAB® inside this book.
I would like to acknowledge the authors (Robert A. Beezer, David Farmer, Alex Jordan, Mitchel T. Keller) of
PreTeXt which is the tool used to author this web book.
Finally, I would like to thank the students who attended my courses at the University of Calabria and who encouraged me to write this text.
I would also like to thank those who have reported typos and errors found in the text and any new reader who wishes to report errors using my personal email address: antonio.bilotta@unical.it
