Precalculus, 7th Edition

The latest edition of this undergraduate text weaves in exercises drawn from real-world problems encountered by engineers and others at electronics giant Motorola Inc. The text covers graphs; polynomial and rational functions; exponential and logarithmic functions; trigonometric functions; analytic trigonometry; applications of trigonometric functions; polar coordinates and vectors; analytic geometry; systems of equations and inequalities; sequences, induction, and the binomial theorem; counting and probability; and the limit, derivative, and integral of a function. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

Mike Sullivan Professor of Mathematics at Chicago State University received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology. Mike has taught at Chicago State for over 30 years. He is a native of Chicago’s South Side and currently resides in Oaklawn.  Mike has four children.  The two oldest have degrees in mathematics and assisted in proofing, checking examples and exercises, and writing solutions manuals for this project.  Mike III co-authored the Sullivan Graphing with Data Analysis series as well as this series.  Dan, the youngest, sells for Prentice Hall as a generalist.

 

Mike has authored or co-authored over ten books.  He owns a travel agency, and splits his time between a condo in Naples, Florida and a home in Oaklawn, where Mike enjoys gardening.  Mike first signed this series with Deleen Publishing (Acquired by Macmillan) in 1985.