Customer Reviews
Avoid - By: N. Wills, 19 Nov 2008 
I recently started mechanical engineering & was advised to buy this book. However it is poorly layed out & doesn't have worked solutions if you are stuck. Do not buy this book, buy strouds maths book it has helped me alot more & is cheaper!!!
Poorly presented and poor explanations - By: Mr. A. Grindley, 03 Feb 2007 
I was recommended by my lecturers to buy this book for my maths modulein the first year of my physics degree. I found that the book is not intuitive, has an ugly appearence (which doesnt motivate the reader to work at the subject) and, most importantly, explains the methodsin question very poorly. As an example, I spent three hours trying to figure out how the book had worked through an integration question, only to find later that the problem had arisen simply because the book had skipped an important step, that wasn't at all obvious. This was the day before an exam to really rub saltin the wound.
I found that the book makes a song & dance of obvious ideas, & simply skims over the more complicated stepsin new ideas.
Allin all, I have hardly ever been able to make good use of this book. Bearin mind, however, that mine is a physics degree, not a maths or engineering degree, but I suspect the problems would be no differentin those degrees also.
A Very very Poor Book - By: , 23 Jun 2004 I use Mathematics every single dayin by job, & have done since I started universityin October of 1992. This book was forced upon us as a text book for the course, since it was co-written by some of our lecturers.
This book is absolutely awful. I have tried & tried to find an answerin this book for problems regularly over the last 12 or so years. Not once has the book proved useful. It is poorly written, with obscure examples. Especiallyin the 'pure' maths sections, if you are looking for an examplein how to perform a certain kind of operation, there is almost never a good example of how to do it.
I have bought many other maths books, & luckily passed my maths courses using a combination of Stroud, Bostock & Chandler (Modular Mathematics Series), & Anton & Rorres (Elementary Linear Algebra). Almost everything you can want isin these other books. Don't waste your money. Search for these other authors.
lack depth - By: , 05 May 2004 I was reading another book b4 reading this one & found it relatively simple & lack of information. It juz shows u HOW TO DO ITin plain simple English, without much explanation about the logics behind. It might be a good book to past your exams, & that's it. it's a very ez book to read. not good for u.
Poor - By: , 22 Oct 2003 Although this book is about engineering maths it is very poorly written. Unless you are an expertin the field you really will not understand anything this book talks about. It seems as if it was the writers ambition to make the book as complicated & unhelpful as possible.
