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Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis Review
User Submitted Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus With Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis ReviewsOctober 8, 2008 Advanced Mathematics Precalculus with Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis The book is as advertized. However, the application it is needed for requires a solutions manual. After getting the book I am finding that locating a solutions manual is nearly impossible. August 27, 2008 Just as described, Good Value The text book was just as described. If the opportunity comes up to purchase from this supplier again, I would. May 6, 2007 No Explanations I'm a high school student who's adv. pre-calc class uses this book. I'm writing to say that without the notes and lectures from my teachers, I would have no idea how to do anything. This book fails to give any clear explanations of topics. The examples provided are rarely the type of problems given in the work that follows. The only good part about the book are the questions, which aren't as repetative as other texts and give good challenges. However, the "information" at the start of each section is minimal and irrelevant at best. July 14, 2006 Excellent! This is an EXCELLENT advanced mathematics book. I am currently a high school student using this book on my own. Never mind the criticism of the "unclear explanations" in each section by the other reviewers. The book briefly states what is needed to do the exercises, and the majority of the "major" theorems in advanced mathematics are proved in the exercises themselves (in fact, that is why so many of the exercises are so challenging). In this way (other books just prove the theorems for you and allow people just to memorize the proof), the author allows you to figure things out for yourself. This book also has a wide scope. However, one tiny fault of this book is that it does not convince you of some of the important facts (and these theorems are definitely not beyond the level of the book), for example the "Rule of 72." Also, this book is not for the average person. It requires a lot of critical thinking. Therefore, if you are not a real math person, I would suggest you get this book along with another advanced mathematics book with more detailed explanations so that you can compare and contrast the two. December 19, 2005 Review From An Unimpressed Student This book fails to give adequate examples at the beginning of each section and provide enough information about the given topic. Further, the examples that are provided are either 1) easy in relation to the actual problems in the "written exercises" section or 2) not relevant to the actual problems in the "written exercises" section. Also, the examples that are given sometimes miss key steps and are therefore confusing. This leads to much frustration. The actual problems though can be quite challenging and appropriate if the reader actual understands the basic underlying principles of the problems. However, the book on occasion supplies inaccurate or incorrect solutions to these problems (the odd number problems in the "written exercises," the "class exercises," and "chapter test" solutions are located in the back of the book). I happen to have on hand another trignometery book. Although old and coming from a pre-calculator age (never mind a pre-computer age as well), this book at least supplies accuarte examples at the beginning of each section. I recommend (although out of print): New Plane And Spherical Trigonometry, Surveying, And Navigation by G.A. Wentworth. Ginn And Company, 1903; or just about any other trigonometry math textbook or precalculus textbook ever published. September 6, 2005 I still havent recieved my book I still havent recieved my book, the email i sent was never answered, dont know what to do. June 6, 2005 Very good as a guide book I am a private maths tutor and I am using this book for its compleness and organization. March 24, 2005 Not a good book to learn from. This book has good homework problems, but doesn't explain them very well. The only problems that are explained are the very easiest ones. I wouldn't recommend this book to any teachers if they want their students to learn things with out getting extremely fustrated. I hate this book and I'm pretty decent at math! November 4, 2004 Just another math textbook in town. Richard Brown, in this book, fails to provide adequate explanation for several topics he discusses, and often falls far short of par when it comes to the quality of these discussions. Some problems are truly challenging, but a large majority are overly simplistic, and will fail to challenge anyone looking for what the book advertises, i.e. Advanced Mathematics. Another question that must be raised is that of Why this book only provides the odd answers to the "Written Excercises" section of the book... is it because they do not trust students who are mature enough in mathematics to learn things at this level to actually work out their answers themselves? All in all, this book is simply another math textbook, and therefore gets a mediocre rating for being far too "average" to make an impact in the competitive field of mathematical writing. April 26, 2001 Relatively Good Advanced Mathematics: Precalculus with Discrete Mathematics and Data Analysis. This book consists of: a refresher of Algebraic Expressions and Application in the form of the function (linear, quadratic, and other polynomial), Logarithms and exponents, a review of Analytic Geometry and Trigonometry, Discrete mathematics as it applies to Sequences and Series, Matrices, Combinatorics, Probability, Statistics, Modeling, and Limits and an introduction of Calculus in the form of the derivative. The book states that an emphasis on application is an intrinsic part of it, this, however is not really the case. The book, while showing an appropriate number of application problems in certain sections, lacks that application horribly in others. However, these lacking sections are few enough that it deserves a fair amount of credit in the attempt.
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