Networks and Communications
J. R. Branfield, A. W. Bell · 1970
In this chapter we consider the use of matrix methods in networks and communications. The application of matrices in this field is becoming extensive. The range of mathematical technique and difficulty is wide, but begins at such a level as to admit of matrix methods being taught through this topic in the classroom at the early secondary stage. Networks have in fact much to commend them as a teaching approach to matrices. The ideas, methods and examples in this chapter have been written, in the main, as investigations — for the reader to be actively involved. These situations are full of extensions and possibilities and once the situation is appreciated then with active participation the reader should find much mathematical enjoyment from continuing the situation in his way with his mathematics.