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Book SynopsisAbout our authors
Raymond A. Barnett, a native of California, received his B.A. in mathematical statistics from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.A. in mathematics from the University of Southern California. He has been a member of the Merritt College Mathematics Department, and was chairman of the department for 4 years. Raymond Barnett has authored or co-authored 18 textbooks in mathematics, most of which are still in use. In addition to international English editions, a number of books have been translated into Spanish.
The late Michael R. Ziegler received his B.S. from Shippensburg State College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. After completing postdoctoral work at the University of Kentucky, he was appointed to the faculty of Marquette University where he held the rank of Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Dr. Ziegler published over a dozen researc
Table of Contents
- I. A LIBRARY OF ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS
- 1. Functions and Graphs
- II. FINITE MATHEMATICS
- 2. Mathematics of Finance
- 3. Systems of Linear Equations; Matrices
- 4. Linear Inequalities and Linear Programming
- 5. Linear Programming: The Simplex Method
- 6. Logic, Sets, and Counting
- 7. Probability
- III. CALCULUS
- 8. Limits and the Derivative
- 9. Additional Derivative Topics
- 10. Graphing and Optimization
- 11. Integration
- 12. Additional Integration Topics
- 13. Multivariable Calculus
- Appendix A: Linear Equations and Graphs
- Appendix B: Basic Algebra Review
- Appendix C: Special Topics
- Appendix D: Tables
- Answers
- Index
