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Mathemetical Methods and Computational Tools 2ND EDITION
Maths: A Student’s Survival Guide A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students
Jenny Olive This friendly self-help workbook covers mathematics essential to first-year undergraduate scientists and engineers. In the second edition of this highly successful textbook the author has completely revised the existing text and added a totally new chapter on vectors. • A new edition of a very successful introductory mathematics textbook • Friendly, thorough and encouraging • 800 problems with full solutions included
… a friendly book written in an engaging style … It also contains very full, worked solutions to the exercises, which will greatly aid self-study. The introduction contains wise guidance on how to study and understand mathematics and the author’s experience as a teacher comes out through her warnings of pitfalls and common errors … it will be valued particularly by those who need to make up a deficiency in a specific topic or to remove the rust from their mathematics … working through a few sections from Olive may be the prescription to cure the problem in many cases.’ Nigel Steele, The Times Higher Education Supplement
2003 276 x 219 mm 650pp 592 b/w illus. 14 tables 770 exercises 9780521017077 | £34.99 / US$94.99 PB
Contents 1. Basic algebra: some reminders of how it works; 2. Graphs and equations; 3. Relations and functions; 4. Some trigonometry and geometry of triangles and circles; 5. Extending trigonometry to angles of any size; 6. Sequences and series; 7. Binomial series and proof by induction; 8. Differentiation; 9. Integration; 10. Complex numbers; 11. Working with vectors.
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