Precalculus Basic Select Version - Hardcover

Faires, J. Douglas; Defranza, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495113484 ISBN 13: 9780495113485

Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co, 2006

Synopsis

Get a better grade with PRECALCULUS! With a focus on teaching the essentials, this mathematics text provides you with the fundamentals necessary to be successful in this course and your future calculus course. Exercises and examples are presented the way that you will encounter them in calculus so that you are truly prepared for your next course. Learning tools found throughout the text such as exercises, calculus connections, and true and false questions help you master difficult concepts.

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Review:

"The writing is clear and accessible for students Concepts are developed through a series of carefully constructed illustrative examples which make transitions from precalculus to calculus smooth." "The text contains a wealth of the end-of-section and end-of-chapter exercises to provide students with opportunities to reinforce new concepts presented in the test. Skills development is appropriately balanced with concept development. Chapter Tests help students practice for the real thing."

About the Author:

J. Douglas Faires, late of Youngstown State University, pursued mathematical interests in analysis, numerical analysis, mathematics history, and problem solving. Dr. Faires won numerous awards, including the Outstanding College-University Teacher of Mathematics by the Ohio Section of MAA and five Distinguished Faculty awards from Youngstown State University, which also awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Science award in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495113484
• ISBN 13: 9780495113485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4