This self-teaching workbook is designed especially for students who need to go back to algebra basics as preparation for starting a college-level math course. It’s also a helpful review for those preparing to take standardized exams that include math testing, such as a math placement exam, the GRE or GMAT. Forgotten Algebra contains 32 work units, starting its review with signed numbers, symbols, and first-degree equations, and progressing to include logarithms and right triangles. Each work unit reviews basics before presenting problems and exercises that include detailed solutions designed to facilitate self-study. The book’s systematic presentation of subject matter is easy to follow, and encompasses all the terminology, equations, and information that students of algebra need to master. This new edition has been expanded to include step-by-step solutions for all exercises.

In Inwood's biography of this forgotten scientist, Robert Hooke and his world are vividly recreated with all their contradictions, successes, and failures. The Forgotten Genius is an absorbing and compelling study of this unduly overlooked man.

This self-teaching refresher course is exactly what you need if you are going on to higher math courses, or if you need a brush-up before taking such tests as SAT I, GRE, or GMAT. Each work unit starts with definitions. Topics covered include first-degree equations, fractional and literal equations, positive integral exponents, negative exponents, binomials, polynomials, quadratic equations, and more. The book is filled with problems and answers to provide you with extensive drill and review. Book jacket.

Presents algebra exercises with easy-to-follow guidelines, and includes over one thousand problems in numerous algebraic topics.

Contains a history of the subject of algebra with over 350 entries providing definitions and explanations of related topics, plus brief biographies of over 100 mathematicians.