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Precalculus

Sixth Edition   Kolman, et al., © 2011, 887 pages

Precalculus is a textbook designed for use by the student. The book is written in a supportive style and includes abundant pedagogic tools to encourage students to read the text with care, follow the numerous examples, and tackle the exercises.

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This manual contains solutions to every ODD numbered exercise in Precalculus, 6th edition, as well as Progress Checks, Review Tests, and Cumulative Review Exercises. Additional practice exercises and tests are located at the very end of every chapter. The Writing Exercises will help further the student's understanding of this material.

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About the Authors

Michael Levitan person
Michael L. Levitan was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. In 1962, he received his BS degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. By 1967, he had earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Minnesota. After teaching three years at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he went to Villanova University in 1970, where he has been ever since. He is currently Director of Villanova's Applied Statistics Graduate Program, a position he has held at various times for approximately 25 years.

He introduced courses in Operations Research and Queueing Theory, and introduced and ran the Math Anxiety Workshop. In 1999 he received the Lawrence C. Gallen Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. He has held six research and teaching appointments at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and at Curtin University, both in Perth. His last research position was at UWA in 2004. He has published articles in probability and in statistics. His most recent publications have been in the area of chick embryo brain growth. As a grant participant, he coauthored a book dealing with sports injury in Australia. He is currently participating in two public health grants in Australia.

Bernard Kolman person

Bernard Kolman received his B.S. (summa cum laude with honors in mathematics and physics) from Brooklyn College in 1954, his Sc.M. from Brown University in 1956, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, all in mathematics. During the summers of 1955 and 1956, he worked as a mathematician for the U.S. Navy, and IBM, respectively, in areas of numerical analysis and simulation. From 1957-1964, he was employed by the UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand Corporation, working in the areas of operations research, numerical analysis, and discrete mathematics. He has also had extensive experience as a consultant to industry in operations research. From 1964-1998, he was a member of the Mathematics Department at Drexel University, where he also served as Acting Head of this department. Since 1964, his research activities have been in the areas of Lie algebras and operations research.

Professor Kolman is the author of numerous papers, primarily in Lie algebras, and has organized several conferences in this area. He is also well known as the author of many mathematics textbooks that are used worldwide and have been translated into other languages. He belongs to a number of professional associations and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Sigma

Arnold Shapiro person

Arnold Shapiro spent the bulk of his working career in industry, where he was involved in the earliest efforts to utilize mathematical modeling in the solution of problems in Operations Research. He then "retired" into teaching mathematics at Drexel University and computer science at Temple University.


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This sixth edition of Precalculus maintains our objective of providing a textbook designed for use by the student. The book is written in a supportive style and includes abundant pedagogic tools to encourage the student to read the text with care, follow the numerous examples, and tackle the exercises. The skills and confidence the student acquires will enable him or her to succeed in more advanced mathematics courses (calculus in particular) that are required in the study of engineering, the natural sciences, business, and management.

New to this Edition
This edition continues emphasis on incorporating graphing calculators as powerful problem-solving and visualization tools, without sacrificing the emphasis of the authors on traditional approaches. New and updated exercises, as well as attention-grabbing chapter openings and projects, have been added to help instructors and students make connections between algebra and the real world. This edition has gone through extensive copy editing and proofing phases in an effort to further ensure the accuracy of the textbook.

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