Contemporary College Algebra: A Graphing Approach (with CD-ROM)

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This text enables students to become active participants in developing their understanding of mathematics, while avoiding the danger of making technology an end in itself. Robust pedagogy including chapter opening applications, graphing explorations, technology tips, calculator investigations, and discovery projects are some of the tools students will use to master the material and begin applying the mathematics to solve real-world problems. Algebra Review. Graphs and Technology. Equations and Inequalities. Functions and Graphs. Polynomial and Rational Functions. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. Systems of Equations and Inequalities. Discrete Algebra. Analytic Geometry. [Triangle Trigonometry. Trigonometric Functions. Trigonometric Identities and Equations. Applications of Trigonometry.] Geometry Review Appendix. Program Appendix

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Thomas W. Hungerford received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Washington (Seattle) and at Cleveland State University, and is now at St. Louis University. His research fields are algebra and mathematics education. He is the author of many notable books for undergraduate and graduate level courses. These include: ALGEBRA, Springer Verlag, Graduate Texts in Mathematics #73, 1974; ABSTRACT ALGEBRA: AN INTRODUCTION, Second Edition, Harcourt, 1997; MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS, Eighth Edition (with M. Lial), Addison-Wesley, 2003; and CONTEMPORARY PRECALCULUS: A GRAPHING APPROACH, Fourth Edition, Brooks/Cole, 2004. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.