Product Description

Written for the Edexcel Syllabus B and similar schemes offered by the major Awarding Bodies. The authors have incorported many modern approaches to mathematical understanding whilst retaining the most effective traditional methods. Plenty of worked examples and stimulating exercises also support this highly popular text.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62290 in Books
• Published on: 1981-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Customer Reviews

a core resource for students of pure mathematics
I have owned this book for many years now and it has served me well throughout A-Level mathematics and beyond. Contrary to other reviews listed here, it is well worth buying and provides a great introduction to the fundamentals of 'advanced' mathematics. It is clearly set out with each chapter being self-contained. Therefore the student can select the order in which to work through the topics. There are numerous exercises at the end of each chapter, which will test even the most able of students. Explanation can be a little thin in some parts, but with careful study all examples can be followed without too much effort.

I still use this book today as a quick reference and would thoroughly recommend it to any students of mathematics.

A useful book for degree course reference
This bok is recommended reading for Maths courses at (in particular) Warwick University. It is (accoriding to information recieved) prefered to the new version, Core Maths for A-Level. However, it is not required reading

Provides a thorough grounding in pure maths
I'm using this book and the sequel (further pure mathematics) to study for maths modules for my chemistry degree at Nottingham and I'm finding it invaluable in helping my maths.

Similarly to another reviewer, it is very structured, hence the title 'A COURSE in pure mathematics and so it makes excellent book for those wanting to understand the subject more thoroughly rather than learning techniques. Because it is quite compact, the information is condensed and it has been precisely written, which is what you want from a maths book. Engineering mathematics was recommended for my course but I find with a lot of new books that the authors don't lay the foundations correctly. This book has gems of information that I didn't know when I did my A-level maths to really understand pure maths.

My only issue with this is that the authors don't provide the full answers for questions in a separate answer book but this isn't much of a problem if you have a teacher to ask.