Essential Trigonometry: A Self-Teaching Guide
About this ebook
- 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 trigonometry 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.
- Covers all the trigonometry needed to take a calculus course.
- Includes problems (with all solutions) that extend your knowledge rather than merely reinforce it.
Contents
1. A Few Basics
2. Radian Measure
3. The Trig Functions
4. Trig Values for Special Angles
5. Graphs of Trig Functions
6. The Major Formulas
7. Inverse Trig Functions
8. The Law of Cosines (and Sines)
9. Solutions
10. Trig Cheat Sheet
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About the author
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.
