Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide

by Ginny Crisonino and Stephen L. Slavin

Book Overview

The fastest, easiest way to master precalculus . . . by doing it!

Do logarithmic functions throw you for a loop? Does the challenge of finding an inverse function leave you overwhelmed? Does the Law of Cosines make you feel clueless? With this helpful, easy-to-follow guide, you will gain total command of these precalc concepts-and many more-in no time at all.

Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide includes an algebra review...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471378232
• ISBN13: 9780471378235
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

As a mathematician I give 5* to this publication. Everything is well explained, the series of chapters is very logical. I recomend it strongly. The exercises cover and target everything without being numerous.

A great review before you do any University calculus course.

After looking at several Precalculus books, I found this the best for someone with my background - someone who has not done maths since high school (10 years ago) and now have to do some university math subjects. Explanations are clear and concise and the book does not assume any prior knowledge in trig, geometry, functions etc. The reason why this book is so good is the balance it strikes-it does not just summarise the subjects like most precalc books do, but at the same time it does not have all the repetition and wordy explanations of precalc books aimed at high school students.By the end of this book you have all the assumed knowledge needed for first year Calculus. There are questions throughout the book with solutions AND the solutions have short explanations written next to them as to what was done.A good ongoing reference for University students for their Precalculus formulas, laws and techniques.

Very Good, some small flaws.

This is an excellent self-teaching/review guide for pre-calculus. It is extremely difficult to try to learn mathematics from a book, but this one made it fairly easy. My only criticism is that I found two errors in the solutions to problems presented. They were obvious, but a student who is afraid of math may be unsettled by the errors. I would also have liked more practice problems.Despite those criticisms, this is an excellent book.