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This best selling author team explains concepts simply and clearly, without glossing over difficult points. Problem solving and mathematical modeling are introduced early and reinforced throughout, so that when students finish the course, they have a solid foundation in the principles of mathematical thinking. This comprehensive, evenly paced book provides complete coverage of the function concept and integrates substantial graphing calculator materials that help students develop insight into mathematical ideas. The authors' attention to detail and clarity, as in James Stewart's market-leading Calculus text, is what makes this text the market leader.
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By Lewis (North Carolina)
The texbook's scope is wide and encompasses algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and various concepts. The last chapter is a preview about calculus. The explanations are lucid and relavant to the exercise sets. In addition, there are numerous mathematical vignettes about concepts and historical people. After the completion of a precalculus sequence, the textbook is excellent as a reference.
By Tyler W. Ascroft (San diego, CA USA)
It is not in as good of condition as they said it was. It still works though.
By kongzi
This book is not bad, at all! However, it is also not very good. It is not intuitive, and it is also very dissimilar from the previous version, making it not worth the price. Just get the previous version at 1/4 the price. You will learn as much.
Also, like all Stewart books, make sure that you learn why things work, not just the tricks on the surface, or you will never pass your tests!
By jason (san diego, ca)
The video lectures are pre-written on the computer. It's basically just like looking at the examples in the book step by step, but in video form. There are only 2-3 examples per sections, and they are relatively easy problems compared to problems at the end of each section (eg the difficulty in problems goes up as the order increases, like all my math books). Just watching the video examples for Chapter 3.1, made me want to punch the author in the face. He kept saying the graphs will be virtually the same, but he showed three graphs that were very different as they were zoomed out, then he finally said the graphs had to be way zoomed out (like a thousand scale, instead of 2 or 3 like he showed earlier). The next example in this section was also relatively easy but he ends it off by singing a ridiculous tune about zeros and would not shut up.
This is in comparison to my Trig 8th edition by Sullivan. His video lectures covered ALL the problems of the chapter test, many of them with high difficulty. And he wrote out his work as he solved the problem by hand on paper. He explained each step thoroughly and was very professional, something I took for granted after seeing the POS pre-calc videos. His videos were a big part for me receiving an A in my trig class.
People already mentioned the mistakes littered throughout the book and answers not matching up in the back. The solutions manual also is very limited, skipping many steps and not thoroughly explaining how they got the answer. Avoid math classes using this book.
By Euphemism (~38N,78W)
This is a "classical" math textbook, in that it presents short sections with call-out boxes, and each short section is followed by a homework review section. Great if this fits your learning style, but there are better textbooks out that approach precalculus with a bit more real-world applicability and creativity.
It should be noted that there are a number of errata in the text that need to be set right; answers given for the homework sections are not always correct. It's not great percentage-wise, less than 1%, but it's irritating.
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