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intereact!Margaret L. Lial, Thomas W. Hungerford
Edition: 8
Retail Price (not our price): $134.67
ISBN: 0201755297
ISBN-13: 9780201755299
Publication Date: 2002-07-29
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 936
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5
1) Great Teaching Substitute [Rating: 5 out of 5]
My teacher for calculus was so bad and couldn't teach. The only way I understood the concepts for the class was through this book. I was expecting a confusing book from what the reviews said, but this is one of the best math books I've used.2) Fine book [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This book explains concepts well. My college professor was Russian and I never understood anything he taught.. this book saved my grade in that course.3) Absolutely Unintelligible [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I am currently taking a math course where this book is used. It is useless and expensive! While I don't consider my instructor particularly adept at teaching, he is a valuable resource in understanding many key points in the book. Whatever language the author writes in, it's not the language of math nor the English language. Any points the author tries to emphasize get lost in a garbled mess of words. All of the assumptions made by the author are unfair to students who have simply tested out of other math courses and are unfortunately stuck taking this one. This text is awful, and even worse for someone trying their best to study this stuff and do well. I'm stuck...4) Worse than useless. [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I'm an engineer. Although I'm not a mathematition, for twenty years, I have used math in my work. This semester, my wife enrolled in a class at the university in which this was the assigned text. I was totally astonished how this author could take the simplest concept "the function" and make it utterly uninteligible. This is not new material. We honestly don't need a new book for it. The book my father used back in 1940-something would be better than this mush - and far cheaper too. This textbook is worse than useless.5) Stupid author [Rating: 1 out of 5]
Indeed, the author doesn't show much examples for most of theproblems. The author assumes students know how to solve the problems, therefore, she skips most of the details. This type of math is not very useful in today's society. It's really stupid!This is also an expensive book and it certainly not worth leaning when the author didn't show much details especially for the more difficult problems. She is a stupid, lazy author!