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 Topics in Mathematics July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw URI using this book for a course taught there. The book wasn't what I expected when I got it. The topics are ok, but I don't like the style of the book. The book is just verbose in my opinion. However, some people like that kind of style in a book. If you like a wordy book in mathematics then I highly recommend this book to you.
Tought Text Wide Ranging subject matter February 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a tough text for a one semester course. It could easily be expanded into a two year math survey course. The material is interesting, but trying to fit it all into a semester makes the work too tough. There are other classes being taken in the semester you know.
 a very good survey December 23, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book provides a very good survey of a variety of mathematical topics and their application. Depth of treatment is lacking sometimes, but the flavor is conveyed.
 Good luck...you'll need it. December 21, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Before I actually received my copy of this book, I thought the other reviewers had to be exaggerating.
They weren't. This book is horrible.
-Even the simplest concepts take the author ten paragraphs to explain. I'm beginning to wonder if they paid him/her/them by the word.
-There are lots of charts and examples in this book, but they are rarely ever on the same page as the text that explains them. The constant flipping back and forth has made the front of my book look like I wadded it up and stuffed it back in the cover.
-This book is FULL of errors and incorrect solutions. I just spent 45 minutes working and reworking a problem because it didn't match the "solution" in the back of the book. I was beginning to think that maybe I didn't understand the material..and then I realized that the author screwed up and that the solution is incorrect. This is not the first time this has happened, and I'm only halfway through the book. :(
If you have a good instructor (especially one that has figured out all the errors and can point them out to you), you might have a fighting chance. For those of you, like me, who are using this book for an online/distance learning course...you're in for a miserable semester.
I highly suggest buying the study guide that goes with this book. It was written by someone else, and it has helped me immensely.
What a mess December 12, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This review may be a little harsh... but, if you had to sit through an entire semester with this book you would see my point. Book this is full of errors and omissions. Something that can be explained in a few sentences take pages for this author to convey and half the time the reader still has to look elsewhere for clarification of the material. Half way into the semester I had to stop reading the thing and do subject research using other sources. Amazing someone would publish a text book this bad.
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