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Contains over 6000 problems and examples. Careful, applied approach relates college algebra and trigonometry material to other fields. Problem sets include graphing calculator problems, exercises for critical thinking, and a wide range of applications. Graphing calculator supplements for TI-81 or Casio fx 7700G graphing calculators are available. ... Read more

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This text provides a thorough treatment of mathematical concepts and techniques that engages students through motivational questions applications and examples from the real world. ... Read more

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Designed to boost success in college algebra and trigonometry courses, this manual uses graphing calculator technology to help you develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. ... Read more

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CONTEMPORARY TRIGONOMETRY completes Thomas Hungerford's renowned series of precalculus texts. His texts are well respected for their thorough integration of the graphing calculator, clear writing, and outstanding applications problems. Many adopters praise his use of real data in examples and exercises, and they appreciate the flexibility of his books' organization.This new text is accompanied by an outstanding array of innovative supplements that facilitate teaching and enhance learning, such as iLrn--a robust suite of online course management, testing, and tutorial resources for instructor and student, with vMentor live online tutoring. The text also includes the free Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM with MathCue, and a Book Companion Web Site featuring online graphing calculator resources. ... Read more

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This text gives a self-contained and detailed treatment of presently known results, and new theorems on hyperbolicity, shadowing, complicated motion, and robustness.The book is intended to provide a dependable reference for researchers wishing to apply such results.This book will be of particular interest to researchers and students interested indynamical systems, particularly in noninvertible maps and infinite dimensional semi-flows or maps and global analysis. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

Just for thoughts
I am a Math teacher in Malaysia. I own Bittinger's "Elementary
and Intermediate Algebra" and also "Trigonometry". Judging from
the books I am using as teaching materials, I can say that the
Bittinger's team has written some of the best Algebra/Trig/
Precalculus textbooks. The explanations are straightforward,
clear and the format neat. Their exercise sets are excellent,
enough for drill-practice purposes and also challenging ones.

In my country American math books are way too expensive because
its the bad economic condition we are having in my country that
buying of American books is a luxury. I am not able to acquire
Bittinger's "College Algebra" yet, hopefully I will be able to
see a copy in the future. In their series, the Bittinger team
has produced their Intermediate Algebra text worth using and I
believe this "College Algebra" title would guarantee that the
team has produced a text that will not disappoint us.

I would strive to get a copy myself one day and I am very sure
I will not regret owning it anyway.

Why is this book $80.00???
Shame on the authors for taking advantage of college students. This is extortion! I assume that the authors are college instructors. C'mon folks, we know you don't make that much money, but why take it out on the students? This book is an introduction to college math, not an introduction to nuclear science!!! Most university students don't make this much money in a week. I recommend that university instructors stop using overpriced text books such as this one. There are quite a few good college math books on the market, most more reasonably priced than this one! I certainly won't be using this book with any of my students. ... Read more

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The Fourth Edition of College Algebra helps students see the dynamic link between concepts and applications. The authors' hallmark approach, the Aufmann Interactive Method, encourages students to interact with math by presenting an annotated example, then guiding students with a Try Exercise, and finally presenting a worked-out solution for immediate reinforcement of the concept.

• An Instructor's Annotated Edition, unlike any other offered for this course, features reduced student text pages with special instructor resources in the margins: teaching tips, extra examples, ideas for reinforcing concepts, discussion suggestions, highlighted vocabulary and symbols, challenge problems, quizzes, suggested assignments, and references to transparencies that may be found both in the Instructor's Resource Manual and on the web site.
• Side-by-Side Solutions to examples pair an algebraic solution and a graphical representation to accommodate different learning styles.
• Integrated web resources include selected Take Note boxes (identified by a special web icon) which direct students to an interactive example or a downloadable file on the web site.
• Exploring Concepts with Technology, a special end-of-chapter feature, expands on ideas introduced in the text by using technology to investigate extended mathematical applications or topics.
• Projects at the end of each exercise set are designed to encourage students (or groups of students) to research and write about mathematics and its applications. Additional Projects are included in the Instructor's Resource Manual and on the book's web site.
• Take Note and Math Matters (formerly called Point of Interest) margin notes alert students about interesting aspects of math history, applications, and points that require special attention.

Reviews (4)

".....you're going to need a different book!!
I've just finished using this book and, while I normally keep my textbooks as reference materials, I found this book to be so bad that I'm selling it back! This book falls short when it comes to providing solid examples; clear, concise text; and valid exercises. Specifically, the pages are so crammed full of text and colors that it is often difficult to quickly find specific information. Much of the text and many of the examples fail to adequately prepare the student for the exercise sets. Additionally, the accompanying solution manual, which helped me immensely, has numerous typos and is missing several pages of solutions. I wish I were alone in my opinion, but the overwhelming majority of my class felt about the same. Even our professor was less than impressed. If this is the textbook you must have for class, get some additional references, i.e. Schaums, or something similar, perhaps even another 5 star rated book from Amazon.

College Algebra by Aufmann
This book is written for the average college student. The
material is illustrated well and there are many examples
depicting the mathematical concepts. More advanced students
are sufficiently challenged, average students will work hard
and below-average students may have problems. It is important
for the instructor to assign frequent homeworks and review
the homeworks before continuing with new material. A small
minority of students enter college having had NO ALGEBRA in
high school. I wish that some of these students would return
to high school to complete the work they never finished.
Overall, I'm satisfied that the text represents a fair
concensus of the problems encountered in College Algebra.
There are sufficient word problems which require students
to translate verbiage into mathematical formulas. In addition,
classic areas; such as, "complete the square" are covered
thoroughly.

Drop the class if this is the text-book.
To date, this is the worst textbook I have encountered in my math classes. In fact the instructor uses this book for homework assignments only as the text itself is useless.

To start with, I found the explanations to be badly written, wordy, and confusing. Seems as though this book was designed for a refreshment course rather than for people who are going over the material for the first time.

Then, the examples: there are not enough of them, and the examples do not support the exercises at the end of the section, so if you work out the exercises at the end of the section and encounter a problem, you just don't have an example to help you out.

It continues with the student solution manual on line: due to the lack of examples the student's solution manual is the next tool to try to figure things out. However, the manual appears to be put together almost as an after thought. It is very unorganized, uses shortcuts to the solutions that are sometimes difficult to figure out.

In summery, this book makes it difficult to learn on your own. It does not help deepen and re-enforce your understanding of the material covered in class. From my experience so far, there are much better books that make the time learning more efficient, productive, and fun.

Best text I've ever seen in 10 years of teaching!
Aufmann's text is excellent. The problems are clearly organized and worked in detail. Aufmann really makes a serious effort to help the students understand the material. His applied problems are very interesting and the illustrations and helpful and numerous. I learned algebra from an old text by Dolciani, and I think Aufmann's book is much better. If I were learning algebra for the first time today, I would hope that my instructors would choose Aufmann's book rather than any of the other sorry excuses for algebra textbooks that are available today. Trust me when I say: ALL ALGEBRA TEXTBOOKS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL. AUFMANN RULES! and if you give the text half a chance, you will be able to learn algebra from it. ... Read more

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This text is an in-depth course in trigonometry designed to be understood and used by students.Although the development of trigonometry begins on page one, the authors realize that many students may have completed algebra and geometry courses some time ago.Therefore, they have included algebra and geometry reminders throughout the text where they know from their teaching experience that many students need help in recalling ideas that are necessary to develop trigonometry.While it assumes no previous knowledge of trigonometry, this book shows how trigonometry can be used in many fields.It also develops algebra skills so that students will be thoroughly prepared to continue their study of mathematics and science.The use of graphing calculators has been incorporated throughout the text to reduce the labor of calculations and to expand the students' understanding of concepts and give students the opportunity to explore relationships.The authors have made a number of major changes in this Third Edition.Calculator hints are now in two columns where appropriate to help students with scientific and graphing calculators use.In the problem sets, additional problems requiring the use of graphing calculators have been added.Group writing exercises have been incorporated into many problem sets and throughout the book to help students develop writing skills in a cooperative learning context. ... Read more