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Maths: A Student's Survival Guide Jenny Olive

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide By Jenny Olive

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide by Jenny Olive


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This friendly and gentle self-help workbook covers mathematics essential for first-year undergraduate scientists and engineers. Each topic is introduced very gently, starting with simple examples that really bring out the basics, then moving on to more challenging problems. Includes over 800 questions with detailed solutions.

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide Summary

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students by Jenny Olive

This friendly and gentle self-help workbook covers mathematics essential for first-year undergraduate scientists and engineers. Mathematics underlies all science and engineering degrees. If your mathematics is not strong, you may have a problem. This book is the solution. Jenny Olive uses her wide experience of teaching and helping students to give you a clear and confident understanding of the core mathematics you need to start a science and engineering degree. Each topic is introduced very gently, starting with simple examples that really bring out the basics, then moving on to more challenging problems. The author takes time to give tricks of the trade and shortcuts, but is also careful to show you common errors and how to anticipate and avoid them. There are over 800 questions for you to do with full and detailed solutions given so that if you get stuck you can work through and see exactly where you have gone wrong. Topics covered include trigonometry and hyperbolic functions, sequences and series (with detailed help on binomial series), differentiation and integration, and complex numbers. This book is a fun and easy way to brush up your maths - either before you start on your university or college course, or while you are getting to grips with it. It's never too late!

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide Reviews

'Jenny Olive's Maths: A Student's Survival Guide is 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
' ... designed as a self-study guide, and allows students to make as much use of sections of the book as they need ... An important feature is that for every concept, the book returns to basics, giving clear and entertaining explanations of the background to maths ... this book is a fine example of its kind and I shall certainly use it with my students certainly use it with my students in the coming year.' Geoff Auty, School Science Review
' ... excellent value, and certainly worth recommending to the strugglers in your maths class or tutorial group.' Andrew King, The Observatory

Table of Contents

Introduction; 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; Index.

Additional information

GOR002015157
9780521575867
0521575869
Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students by Jenny Olive
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1998-07-16
578
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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