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

The second edition of a highly successful introductory textbook on essential mathematics.

Jenny Olive (Author)

9780521017077, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 September 2003

650 pages, 592 b/w illus. 14 tables 770 exercises
27.7 x 21.8 x 4.6 cm, 1.64 kg

'… this is a very good book of its kind for the simple reason that the author gets across the really essential message of any teaching approach - that she is there to help the students, thinks about their needs and find ways to address them. there are some nice little 'human' touches that raise a smile … many students will warm to this book because the author clearly cares for their interests.' The Mathematical Gazette

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Maths for engineers [TBJ], Physics [PH], Maths for scientists [PDE]