Precalculus

by J. Douglas Faires, James DeFranza

Make the grade with PRECALCULUS and its accompanying technology! With a focus on teaching the essentials, this streamlined mathematics text provides you with the fundamentals necessary to be successful in this course--and your future calculus course. Exercises and examples are presented in the same way that you will encounter them in calculus, familiarizing you with concepts you'll use again, and preparing you to succeed. In-text study aids further help you master concepts.

Genres: Mathematics

464 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Faires earned a bachelor’s degree from YSU in 1963 and returned in 1969 to join the mathematics faculty, retiring in 2006.

He received numerous honors, including five YSU Distinguished Faculty awards and an Honorary Doctor of Science from YSU. He was a driving force behind the establishment of the YSU Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.

Reviews

[Mark Rodrigue · Rating 5 out of 5]

The basis of this particular book is highlighting the infrastructure of applied precalculus topics for evaluation and analysis. The writing is both fluid and appealing to me personally. I genuinely like the text for it's completeness and accuracy. The two have written another fine work about an interesting topic, and have both influenced me personally to move on to my Calculus text as well. I studied both at the University level, and I must say both were challenging to me, for good reason. For that, I am grateful to have passed both, and I have two degrees to show for it as well. Fine building text to other things academic, perhaps.

[Lindasantoro Santoro · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've never tried to learn math from a book before. Now I have no choice. My instructor is just NOT helping!