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2、airmanAnneliLax,EditorNewYorkUniversityJoanneElliott,RutgersUniversityBasilGordon,UniversityofCaliforniaHerbertJ.Greenberg,UniversityofDenverPeterUngarTheNewMathematicalLibrary(NML)wasstartedin1961bytheSchoolMathematicsStudyGrouptomakeavailabletohighschoolstudentsshortex
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8、MATICALLIBRARY1.Numbers:RationalandIrrationalbyIvanNiven2.WhatisCalculusAbout?byW.W.Sawyer3.AnIntroduct