Essential Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide
Пра гэту электронную кнігу
- Teaches general principles that can be applied to a wide variety of problems.
- Avoids the mindless and excessive routine computations that characterize conventional textbooks.
- Treats the subject as a logically coherent discipline, not as a disjointed collection of techniques.
- Restores proofs to their proper place to remove doubt, convey insight, and encourage precise logical thinking.
- Omits digressions, excessive formalities, and repetitive exercises.
- Provides exceptional preparation for a calculus course.
- Includes problems (with all solutions) that extend your knowledge rather than merely reinforce it.
Contents
1. The Real Line and Coordinate Plane
2. Straight Lines
3. Circles and Parabolas
4. Functions
5. Graphs
6. Trigonometry
7. Solutions
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Звесткі пра аўтара
Tim Hill is a statistician living in Boulder, Colorado. He holds degrees in mathematics and statistics from Stanford University and the University of Colorado. Tim has written self-teaching guides for Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Precalculus, Advanced Precalculus, Permutations & Combinations, Mathematics of Money, and Excel Pivot Tables. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim climbs rocks, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.
