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Title: Precalculus: Functions and Graphs (with CD-ROM) by Jeffery Cole, Jeffrey A. Cole, Earl W. Swokowski, Jeffery A. Cole, Earl Swokowski ISBN: 0-534-39643-7 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rigorous and well done
Comment: This book provides excellent coverage of every topic that should be covered in the precalculus curriculum. Despite some negative reviews by precalc. students (see number 4 above), if you are not ready to handle the material in this book, you are not going to be ready to pass calculus. There are other so-called precalculus books out there that are watered down, that don't cover as many topics, and that have much easier homework -- as a calculus instructor, I can promise you that these books will not teach you what you need to know to pass calculus. A student who complains that the book "makes you think for yourself" doesn't realize that that is exactly what the book is supposed to do. The real difficulty these students are experiencing is that there is too much material to be covered in precalculus to finish in a single semester. If your school is making you finish this 800-some page book in a single semester, the difficulties you are experiencing are due to the speed with which the material is covered, not the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The canonical precalculus text
Comment: There may be other precalc texts as good as this, but there can't be any better ones. The discussion of algebra, functions,trigonometry, series, and analytic geometry is exemplary. One might quibble with the choice of problems as they are all of the routine (i.e. drill) variety. I don't understand the gripes of the other reviewers. The discussion of topics is lucid, and there are numerous solved problems that don't differ from the exercises.
I recommend this text.
Rating: 1
Summary: Precalculus: Functions and Graphs
Comment: This book is horrible!! The explanations are needlessly wordy and don't do much to improve my understanding of math. Also, the homework is poorly designed: instead of building each new problem on older ones, everything is a scattered mess. Professors, please don't use this book just because you know Swokowski has been writing textbooks forever and he's the standard you're used to. I'm a GOOD student and I can safely say that this book is worthless.
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Title: Precalculus: Functions & Graphs/Solutions Manual by Jeffery Cole ISBN: 0534378978 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Calculus (with CD-ROM) by James Stewart ISBN: 053439339X Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $135.95 |
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Title: Volume II: From 1865 : Volume of ...Boyer-The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People by BOYER ISBN: 0618280731 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $74.76 |
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Title: Volume I: To 1877 : Volume of ...Boyer-The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People by BOYER ISBN: 0618280650 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $74.76 |
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Title: Introductory Chemistry: Concepts and Connections (3rd Edition) by Charles H. Corwin ISBN: 0130874701 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 03 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $101.00 |
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