to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice. to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket. to direct (the eye, a glance, etc.), especially in a cursory manner: She cast her eyes down the page.
Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing.
This \book grew out of a series of twenty ve lecture notes for a sophomore. linear algebra class taught at the University of California, Davis. The audi-. ence was primarily engineering students and students of pure sciences, some. of whom may go on to major in mathematics.