BOOK ADVERTISEMENT: Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics
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- Subject: [mg4933] BOOK ADVERTISEMENT: Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics
- From: Dr Phillip Kent <p.kent at ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:18:00 -0400
- Organization: Imperial College
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BOOK ADVERTISEMENT: Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics The book "Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Mathematica-based Approach" has just been published by Imperial College Press. The book covers the mathematical topics studied, in Britain, in secondary school and first year of university. In North American terms, it is suitable for freshman calculus. No previous experience with Mathematica is assumed. Contents: * Getting Started with Mathematica * Functions & Graphs * Trigonometry * Sequences * Calculus - Differentiation, Integration, Series * Vectors and Matrices * Complex Numbers The book uses specially-written Mathematica functions. These may be freely downloaded from http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/packages/book and also by gopher or anonymous ftp to metric.ma.ic.ac.uk in directory pub/packages/book For full details go to: http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/book/ Or e-mail me for further information. ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Dr Phillip Kent | tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503 The METRIC Project | fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517 Mathematics Department | Imperial College | p.kent at ic.ac.uk London SW7 2BZ, U.K. | http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------+---------------------------- BUY THE BOOK - http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/book/ ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====