, Instructors’ Solution Manual
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms:
A Unified Approach
Second Edition
John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke
Revised Version, July 2003
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c John H. Hubbard and Barbara Burke Hubbard
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, Contents
Solutions for Chapter 0 1
Solutions for Chapter 1 11
Review Solutions, Chapter 1 57
Solutions for Chapter 2 71
Review Solutions for Chapter 2 125
Solutions for Chapter 3 141
Review Solutions, Chapter 3 199
Solutions for Chapter 4 211
Review Solutions, Chapter 4 279
Solutions for Chapter 5 293
Review Solutions, Chapter 5 315
Solutions for Chapter 6 319
Review Solutions, Chapter 6 387
Solutions for Appendix A 401
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, Solutions for Chapter 0
0.2.1 (a) The negation of the statement is: There exists a prime number such that if you divide it
by 4 you have a remainder of 1, but which is not the sum of two squares.
Remark. By the way, this is false, and the original statement is true: 5 = 4 + 1, 13 = 9 + 4, 17 =
16 + 1, 29 = 25 + 4, . . . , 97 = 81 + 16, . . . .
If you divide a whole number (prime or not) by 4 and get a remainder of 3, then it is never the
sum of two squares: 3 is not, 7 is not, 11 is not, etc. You may well be able to prove this; it isn’t all
that hard. But the original statement about primes is pretty tricky.
(b) The negation of the statement is: There exist x ∈ R and ² > 0 such that for all δ > 0 there
exists y ∈ R with |y − x| < δ and |y 2 − x2 | ≥ ².
Remark. In this case also, this is false, and the original statement was true: it is the definition of
the mapping x 7→ x2 being continuous.
(c) The negation of the statement is: There exists ² > 0 such that for all δ > 0, there exist
x, y ∈ R with |x − y| < δ and y 2 − x2 | ≥ ².
Remark. In this case, this is true, and the original statement is false. Indeed, if you take ² = 1
and any δ > 0 and set
µ ¶
1 1 δ δ 2 δ
x = , y = + , then |y − x | = |y − x||y + x| =
2 2
+ > 1.
δ δ 2 2 δ 2
The original statement says that the function x 7→ x2 is uniformly continuous, and it isn’t.
0.3.1 (a) (A ∗ B) ∗ (A ∗ B) (b) (A ∗ A) ∗ (B ∗ B) (c) A ∗ A
0.4.1 (a) No; many people have more than one aunt and some have none.
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(b) No, 0 is not defined.
(c) No.
0.4.2 None of the relations in Exercise 0.4.1 is a true function.
(a) “The aunt of,” from people to people is undefined for some people, and it takes on multiple
values for others. Even if we considered the function ”The aunt of” from people with one aunt to
people, the function would be neither one to one nor onto: some aunts have more than one niece or
nephew, and not all people are aunts.
(b) f (x) = x1 , from real numbers to real numbers is undefined at 0. f (x) = x1 , from real numbers
except 0 to real numbers is a function. This function is one to one, but not onto (it never takes on
the value 0).
(c) “The capital of,” from countries to cities is not a function, because it takes on multiple values
for some countries. “The capital of,” from countries with one capital city to cities is, of course, a
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