Precalculus Second Edition
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David Cohen's PRECALCULUS: A PROBLEMS-ORIENTED APPROACH, Sixth Edition, focuses on teaching mathematics by using a graphical perspective throughout to provide a visual understanding of college algebra... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0314262091
ISBN13:9780314262097
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:West Publishing Company
Length:725 Pages
Weight:3.95 lbs.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
The reason for having every topic under the sun in contemporary freshman math books is not educational fads, it is market forces. I have had many converstations with textbook marketing people and have asked them why they have so many topics in their books. The answer was, 'to have the book adopted by as many departments as possible.' The result: professors must organize and edit the contents of the book, a job that properly belongs to the author and publisher.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I used this text as preparation for university calculus. Each chapter has a high level of rigor and clearly explains the mechanics of solving problems. The text ignores extensive discussion of applications, which is a good thing. References to applications in introductory math texts always strike me as ad hoc, distracting and useless. If you want to know why some particular analytic method is useful in the real world then you need to study up in the particular discipline. If you want a straight and detailed exposition of methods then this is the text. Much stronger than the Larson texts on college algebra/trigonometry.
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