
Maths: A Student's Survival Guide
A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students
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- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Maths: A Student's Survival Guide
A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students
About this book
This friendly self-help workbook covers mathematics essential to first-year undergraduate scientists and engineers. In the second edition of this highly successful textbook the author has completely revised the existing text and added a totally new chapter on vectors. Mathematics underpins all science and engineering degrees, and this may cause problems for students whose understanding of the subject is weak. In this book Jenny Olive uses her extensive experience of teaching and helping students by giving a clear and confident presentation of the core mathematics needed by students starting science or engineering courses. The book contains almost 800 exercises, with detailed solutions given in the back to allow students who get stuck to see exactly where they have gone wrong. Topics covered include trigonometry and hyperbolic functions, sequences and series (with detailed coverage of binomial series), differentiation and integration, complex numbers, and vectors.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Introduction to the second edition
- 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
- 11 Working with vectors
- Answers to the exercises
- Index