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    <author>
      <personname>Dan Margalit</personname>
      <department>School of Mathematics</department>
      <institution>Georgia Institute of Technology</institution>
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    <author>
      <personname>Joseph Rabinoff</personname>
      <department>School of Mathematics</department>
      <institution>Georgia Institute of Technology</institution>
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      <year>2017</year>
      <holder>Georgia Institute of Technology</holder>
      <minilicense>GFDL License</minilicense>
      <shortlicense>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the appendix entitled <q>GNU Free Documentation License.</q>  All trademarks<trademark /> are the registered<registered /> marks of their respective owners.</shortlicense>
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  <preface>
    <title>Contributors to this textbook</title>

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        <personname>Dan Margalit</personname>
        <department>School of Mathematics</department>
        <institution>Georgia Institute of Technology</institution>
        <email>dmargalit7@math.gatech.edu</email>
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      <contributor xml:id="jdr">
        <personname>Joseph Rabinoff</personname>
        <department>School of Mathematics</department>
        <institution>Georgia Institute of Technology</institution>
        <email>rabinoff@math.gatech.edu</email>
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      <contributor xml:id="larry">
        <personname>Larry Rolen</personname>
        <department>School of Mathematics</department>
        <institution>Georgia Institute of Technology</institution>
        <email>	larry.rolen@math.gatech.edu</email>
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    <p>
      Joseph Rabinoff contributed all of the figures, the demos, and the technical aspects of the project, as detailed below.
      <ul>
        <li>
          The textbook is written in XML and compiled using a variant of Robert Beezer's <url href="https://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/">MathBook XML</url>, as heavily modified by Rabinoff.
        </li>
        <li>
          The mathematical content of the textbook is written in LaTeX, then converted to HTML-friendly SVG format using a collection of scripts called PreTeX: this was coded by Rabinoff and depends heavily on <url href="https://inkscape.org/">Inkscape</url> for pdf decoding and <url href="https://fontforge.github.io/">FontForge</url> for font embedding.  The figures are written in <url href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ">PGF/TikZ</url> and processed with PreTeX as well.
        </li>
        <li>
          The demonstrations are written in JavaScript+WebGL using Steven Wittens' brilliant framework called <url href="https://github.com/unconed/mathbox">MathBox</url>.
        </li>
      </ul>
      All source code can be found on <url href="https://github.com/QBobWatson/gt-linalg">GitHub</url>.  It may be freely copied, modified, and redistributed, as detailed in the appendix entitled <q>GNU Free Documentation License.</q>
    </p>

    <p>
      Larry Rolen wrote many of the exercises.
    </p>

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  <preface>
    <title>Variants of this textbook</title>

    <p>
      There are several variants of this textbook available.
      <ul>
        <li>
          The <url href="/ila">master version</url> is the default version of the book.
        </li>
        <li>
          The <url href="/ila/1553">version for math 1553</url> is fine-tuned to contain only the material covered in Math 1553 at Georgia Tech.
        </li>
      </ul>
      The section numbering is consistent across versions.  This explains why Section 6.3 does not exist in the Math 1553 version, for example.
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      You are currently viewing the
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        <em>master version</em>.
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      <restrict-version versions="1553">
        <em>version for math 1553</em>.
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