Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless

Calc I
2. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-07-043408-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 316 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Beginning--Limits.The Basics.Curve Sketching Made Easy.Word Problems Made Easy.Well, Less Difficult.Integral Applications.Odds and Ends.

Über Autor(innen)

Miller, Bob
Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.

Bob Miller has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College in New York for nearly 30 years. He received his degrees from Brooklyn Polytechnic, and has taught at Westfield State College, Massachusetts, Rutgers, and City College of New York. His main goal is to make the study of mathematics easier and more enjoyable for today's students.