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Acknowledgements
The production of this series of advanced mathematics books was made possible by the
following grants and support.
1 Generous grants from The Nuffield Foundation and from Sir John Cass's Foundation.
2 Valuable support from
Northumberland County Council, for seconding Bob Summers to work with the project,
and the unstinting help and encouragement of Chris Boothroyd, Director of their
Supported Self Study Unit
David Johnson, Licentiate Professor, Centre for Educational Studies, King's College,
London
the Local Education Authorities of Camden, Essex, Islington, Northumberland, Oxford,
Tower Hamlets and Westminster for releasing teachers to work with the project
Afzal Ahmed, Warwick Evans, Adrian Oldknow and Honor Williams from the
Mathematics Centre, West Sussex Institute of Higher Education
Geoff Wake from the Mechanics in Action Project, University of Manchester.
This course has been written with the help of many people in addition to the team, which
consists of: Hugh Neill, Director; Sue Burns, Deputy Director; Sue Ahrens and
Bob Summers, Development Officers; and Nina Towndrow, Project Administrator.
Other contributing authors are: Mary Barnes, Jill Bruce, Ruth Farwell, Paul Garcia,
Anko Haven, Gerry van den Heuvel-Verhaegh, Alice Hicks, George Gheverghese Joseph,
Jan van Maanen, Adrian Oldknow, Tony Ralston, Mary Rouncefield, Paul Tempelaar,
Geoff Wake and Peter Wilder.
Teachers who have also helped in the production of materials include: Paul Aljabar,
Jane Annets, Dinny Barker, Richard Choat, Joel and Trudy Cunningham, John Deakin,
Phil Donovan, Jenny Douglas, John Eyles, Peter Horril, Paul Jenkins, Sue Maunder and
Mike Warne.
Other people who have helped: John Fauvel, Steve Russ, Marianne Vinker and
Tom Whiteside.
Thanks are given to Mr C B F Walker of The British Museum for his considerable help, and
to the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations for permission to use some
Examination questions from specimen papers.
tor was Hugh Neill. Diona Gregory edited for Longman Education, and kept
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