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Acknowledgments

I have many people to thank.

I would like to thank my wife Marlene, who makes life worth living.

I thank the two most wonderful children in the world, Sheryl and Eric, for being themselves.

I would like to thank my brother Jerry for all his encouragement and for arranging to have my nonprofessional
editions printed.

I would like to thank Bernice Rothstein of the City College of New York and Sy Solomon at Middlesex County
Community College for allowing my books to be sold in their book stores and for their kindness and
encouragement.

I would like to thank Dr. Robert Urbanski, chairman of the math department at Middlesex, first for his
encouragement and second for recommending my books to his students because the students found them
valuable.

I thank Bill Summers of the CCNY audiovisual department for his help on this and other endeavors.

Next I would like to thank the backbones of three schools, their secretaries: Hazel Spencer of Miami of Ohio,
Libby Alam and Efua Tongé of the City College of New York, and Sharon Nelson of Rutgers.

I would like to thank Marty Levine of MARKET SOURCE for first presenting my books to McGraw-Hill.

I would like to thank McGraw-Hill, especially John Carleo, John Aliano, David Beckwith, and Pat Koch.

I would like to thank Barbara Gilson, Mary Loebig Giles, and Michelle Matozzo Bracci of McGraw-Hill and
Marc Campbell of North Market Street Graphics for improving and beautifying the new editions of this series.

I would also like to thank my parents, Lee and Cele, who saw the beginnings of these books but did not live to
see their publication.

Last I would like to thank three people who helped keep my spirits up when things looked very bleak: a great
friend, Gary Pitkofsky; another terrific friend and fellow lecturer, David Schwinger; and my sharer of dreams,
my cousin, Keith Ellis, who also did not live to see my books published.