We have tried our best to minimize errata in this edition. If you find any, please send a message to sleon@umassd.edu so that corrections can be made for the next printing.
The following items of errata were discovered in the first printing and were corrected in time for the second printing of the book.
| page 72 | Exercise 27(b). Replace "Vx = 0" with "Vz = 0" and on the next line change the cn to cn+1. |
| page 104 | Exercise 8. It should read: "... is an elementary matrix of the same ..." |
| page 172 | Exercise 4(b). Replace "r = b - Ax" with "r = b - Cx" |
| page 225 | Exercise 17. Change the U to a Q. |
| page 295 | Exercise 4. Change "7 x 5" to "8 x 5". |
| page 355 | Exercise 24. Replace Rn by Cn. |
| page 400 |
Exercise 9. Replace "eye(n)" with "2 * eye(n)" |
| page 463 | Exercise 6(c). Replace "If the power..." with "Show that if the power..." |
| page 502 | In Section 2.2 the answer listed for Exercise 12 is actually the answer to Exercise 13. |
| page 504 | In the answers for Section 6 the answer listed for 18(b) is actually the answer to Exercise 21(b). |
| page 508 | In answer 2 at the top of the page change the x1 and x2 to u1 and u2. |
| page 511 | In Section 3 answers 19, 20 , and 24 are really the answers to Exercises 20, 21, and 26. |
| page 512 | In Section 3 answers 25, and 26 are really the answers to Exercises 27, and 28. |
| page 512 | In Section 4 answers 11(b), 12, and 21 are really the answers to Exercises 12(b), 13, and 23. |
| page 52 | In the first sentence change the word "areas" to "area". |
| page 81 | In Exercise 12 the (1,2) block of the matrix should be O instead of C. |
| page 102 | In the last column of Table 1 change the entry 45 to 44. |
| page 272 | Exercise 10. Replace "zinto" with "into". |
| page 343 | The last 4 lines of Exercise 25 should read: |
| page 502 | The Section 1.5 the answers listed for exercise 12 and 13 are actually the answers to exercise 13 and 14. |
| page 509 | In Chapter Test A of Chapter 5, answer 1 should be "true". |
| page 511 | In Section 3, for answer 22 the matrix should be |
| page 515 | The answers are numbered incorrectly in Section 4. Answer 4 is actually the answer to Exercise 7. The numbers for the following exercises (6 through 26) in that section should all be increased by 4 so that they match up correctly with the exercises Section 4 of Chapter 7. This correction carries over to the answers at the top of the next page. |
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