TI-86 Calculator Technology Resource Manual to accompany Contemporary Linear Algebra - Softcover

Anton, Howard; Busby, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471269425 ISBN 13: 9780471269427

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

Essential graphing calculator help for linear algebra students

The TI-86 Calculator Technology Resource Manual to accompany Contemporary Linear Algebra helps students quickly grasp the technology so they can focus on learning algebra. The TI-86 calculator can save time with rote calculations and more accurate graphs, but graphing calculators function differently from the usual scientific calculator; this book helps flatten the learning curve with tutorials tailored to the problems posed in the text. The focus on common operations and practical applications gives students a lasting skill set that will serve them throughout their mathematical and scientific education.

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About the Author

Howard Anton obtained his B.A. from Lehigh University, his M.A. from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, all in mathematics. He worked in the manned space program at Cape Canaveral in the early 1960's. In 1968 he became a research professor of mathematics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he taught and did mathematical research for 15 years. In 1983 he left Drexel as a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics to become a full-time writer of mathematical textbooks. There are now more than 150 versions of his books in print, including translations into Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, and Indonesian. He was awarded a Textbook Excellence Award in 1994 by the Textbook Authors Association, and in 2011 that organization awarded his Elementary Linear Algebra text its McGuffey Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0471269425
• ISBN 13: 9780471269427
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266