Avoid
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I recently started mechanical engineering and was advised to buy this book. However it is poorly layed out and doesn't have worked solutions if you are stuck. Do not buy this book, buy strouds maths book it has helped me alot more and is cheaper!!!
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Poorly presented and poor explanations
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I was recommended by my lecturers to buy this book for my maths module in the first year of my physics degree. I found that the book is not intuitive, has an ugly appearence (which doesnt motivate the reader to work at the subject) and, most importantly, explains the methods in question very poorly. As an example, I spent three hours trying to figure out how the book had worked through an integration question, only to find later that the problem had arisen simply because the book had skipped an important step, that wasn't at all obvious. This was the day before an exam to really rub salt in the wound.
I found that the book makes a song and dance of obvious ideas, and simply skims over the more complicated steps in new ideas.
All in all, I have hardly ever been able to make good use of this book. Bear in mind, however, that mine is a physics degree, not a maths or engineering degree, but I suspect the problems would be no different in those degrees also.
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A Very very Poor Book
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I use Mathematics every single day in by job, and have done since I started university in October of 1992. This book was forced upon us as a text book for the course, since it was co-written by some of our lecturers. This book is absolutely awful. I have tried and tried to find an answer in this book for problems regularly over the last 12 or so years. Not once has the book proved useful. It is poorly written, with obscure examples. Especially in the 'pure' maths sections, if you are looking for an example in how to perform a certain kind of operation, there is almost never a good example of how to do it. I have bought many other maths books, and luckily passed my maths courses using a combination of Stroud, Bostock and Chandler (Modular Mathematics Series), and Anton and Rorres (Elementary Linear Algebra). Almost everything you can want is in these other books. Don't waste your money. Search for these other authors.
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lack depth
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I was reading another book b4 reading this one and found it relatively simple and lack of information. It juz shows u HOW TO DO IT in plain simple English, without much explanation about the logics behind. It might be a good book to past your exams, and that's it. it's a very ez book to read. not good for u.
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Poor
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Although this book is about engineering maths it is very poorly written. Unless you are an expert in the field you really will not understand anything this book talks about. It seems as if it was the writers ambition to make the book as complicated and unhelpful as possible.
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