Memoirs of a Buccaneer provide introductions to matrix analysis

provide introductions to matrix analysis and numerical linear algebra

An extensive updated bibliography completes the book

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Memoirs of a Buccaneer provide introductions to matrix analysisIt was William Dampier's passion to see the world that turned him into a buccaneer. He possessed remarkable powers of observation and analysis, and his life as a seventeenth century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal. Throughout his travels of Central and South America and the East Indies, Dampier provides riveting accounts of sea battles against Spanish treasure ships, as well as pirate life, lore,