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Essential Trigonometry - by Tim Hill (Paperback)

Essential Trigonometry - by  Tim Hill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This no-nonsense guide provides students and self-learners with a clear and readable study of trigonometry's most important ideas. Tim Hill's distraction-free approach combines decades of tutoring experience with the proven methods of his Russian math teachers. The result: learn in a few days what conventional schools stretch into months.</p><ul><li>Teaches general principles that can be applied to a wide variety of problems.</li><li>Avoids the mindless and excessive routine computations that characterize conventional textbooks.</li><li>Treats trigonometry as a logically coherent discipline, not as a disjointed collection of techniques.</li><li>Restores proofs to their proper place to remove doubt, convey insight, and encourage precise logical thinking.</li><li>Omits digressions, excessive formalities, and repetitive exercises.</li><li>Covers all the trigonometry needed to take a calculus course.</li><li>Includes problems (with all solutions) that extend your knowledge rather than merely reinforce it.</li></ul><p><strong>Contents</strong><br/>1. A Few Basics<br/>2. Radian Measure<br/>3. The Trig Functions<br/>4. Trig Values for Special Angles<br/>5. Graphs of Trig Functions<br/>6. The Major Formulas<br/>7. Inverse Trig Functions<br/>8. The Law of Cosines (and Sines)<br/>9. Solutions<br/>10. Trig Cheat Sheet</p><p><strong>About the Author</strong><br/>Tim Hill is a statistician living in Boulder, Colorado. He holds degrees in mathematics and statistics from Stanford University and the University of Colorado. Tim has written self-teaching guides for Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Precalculus, Advanced Precalculus, Permutations & Combinations, Mathematics of Money, and Excel Pivot Tables. When he's not crunching numbers, Tim climbs rocks, hikes canyons, and avoids malls.</p>

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