Maths: A Student's Survival Guide
eBook - PDF

Maths: A Student's Survival Guide

A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Dedication
  7. Introduction
  8. Introduction to the second edition
  9. 1 Basic algebra: some reminders of how it works
  10. 2 Graphs and equations
  11. 3 Relations and functions
  12. 4 Some trigonometry and geometry of triangles and circles
  13. 5 Extending trigonometry to angles of any size
  14. 6 Sequences and series
  15. 7 Binomial series and proof by induction
  16. 8 Differentiation
  17. 9 Integration
  18. 10 Complex numbers
  19. 11 Working with vectors
  20. Answers to the exercises
  21. Index