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Maths
A Student’s Survival Guide
This friendly self-help workbook coversmathematics essential to first-yearundergraduate scientists and engineers. Inthe second edition of this highly successfultextbook the author has completely revisedthe existing text and added a totally newchapter on vectors.Mathematics underpins all science andengineering degrees, and this may causeproblems for students whose understanding of the subject is weak. In this book JennyOlive uses her extensive experience of teaching and helping students by giving aclear and confident presentation of the coremathematics needed by students starting science or engineering courses. Each topic isintroduced verygently, beginning withsimple examples that bring out the basics,and then moving on to tackle morechallenging problems. The author takes thetime to explain the tricks of the trade andalso shortcuts, but is careful to explaincommon errors allowing students toanticipate and avoid them.The book contains more than 820 execises,with detailed solutions given in the back toallow students who get stuck to see exactlywhere they have gone wrong. Topics coveredinclude trigonometry and hyperbolicfunctions, sequences and series (withdetailed coverage of binomial series),differentiation and integration, complexnumbers, and vectors.This self-study guide to introductory collegemathematics will be invaluable to studentswho want to brush up on the subject beforestarting their course, or to help themdevelop their skills and understanding whileat university.
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