A thorough grasp of basic mathematical topics is essential in enabling students across a range fo disciplines to successfully tackle their degree and diploma courses. By providing a clear and non-intimidating foundation in mathematics, this text develops students' ability to handle the subject with confidence and ease.

By providing a clear and non-intimidating foundation in mathematics, this text sets out to develop engineering students' ability to handle basic mathematics with confidence. For use either as a self-teaching text or to accompany a lecture course, this book encourages mathematical understanding and develops manipulative skills through many worked examples, self-tests questions and exercises. This second edition includes many small improvements throughout the text and a new chapter on sets and probability providing the background to a course on statistics.

2001-03-02 I can understand this!

Not being from a mathematical background, I was looking for something to get me into it quickly and quietly. Having tried various other books and failed miserably to understand them, this was like a hurricane of fresh air. I got through the whole thing in 5 days and understood the lot - a record for me when it comes to maths (we have a hate-hate relationship). I'd recommend this book any day!