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Mathematics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Math does not need to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to being a confident mathematician. This book simple step-by-step explanations, to help you grasp new topics or those that have previously confused you; practice questions throughout, to help you embed your learning and improve your confidence; and end of chapter summaries, to help you remember the key points you've learned--all in one great-value book, so you don't need any separate workbooks or course books.
Chapters number, angles, fractions, two-dimensional shapes, decimals, statistics, directed numbers, graphs, measurement, perimeter and area, algebraic, three-dimensional shapes, ratio and proportion, pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry, indices and standard form.
Chapters number, angles, fractions, two-dimensional shapes, decimals, statistics, directed numbers, graphs, measurement, perimeter and area, algebraic, three-dimensional shapes, ratio and proportion, pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry, indices and standard form.
384 pages, Paperback
Published September 25, 2018
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September 19, 2021
A great introduction into mathematics. Very useful for someone who has been away from the subject for a couple of years too.
March 18, 2026
Well, I have a project that I want to do--inspired by a failed 2016 attempt at NaNoWriMo--that is effectively a joke book meant to irritate people who are into Theoretical Maths
To do it, I need to get really really good at Maths. Now, the astute amongst you might note that the current year is 2026. Well... stuff has happened in my life
Now, to review this book... it is not really good for somebody to Teach Themself Maths
It is a great book to review Maths information you've already learned, but are somewhat rusty with, and want to tune up your Maths knowledge in that area. If you already have been taught this stuff, but haven't done much with any of it--this book will have a bunch of bells and lights and what not going, "oh yeah... that is a thing, right". You know for that parts that are not "yep, pretty standard maths right there. That is another maths alright"
Which there _IS_ a market for a book to be picked up like that. I bought this book for that reason--expecting to read an entry level maths book, so that I could review maths and feel really really good about how much I'm getting right (to offset the few spots where I completely scuff it)
If you are buying this, under the notion of self-teaching Maths from a stance of learning it from not really knowing any Maths... this book is not really going to cut the Mustard
Various sections are very brief--giving summaries of various topics. Moving from assertion to assertion fairly quickly. That I'm not certain I'd have been satisfied with those assertions if I was not already somewhat aware of the concept being described. It does a lot of "this is a THING--a Maths THING--NO FURTHER EXPLANATION HERE--ACCEPT THE MATHS THING!"... and... for some Maths concepts that seems reasonable. Like, I don't need to have the various incorrect proofs of 1+1=2 to go over the ways that they differ from the correct proof of 1+1=2. Well, I don't need that in an introductory text on the subject. I do need those, as I have a really weird sense of humour that has people assuming I am heavily medicated on something. This book though--not the place for that
There are a few areas where it does elaborate closer to a sufficient amount. Mostly the earlier chapters
That being said, if it _was_ a proper way for somebody to come into stuff, the book would be three times as big
When the title says "Complete Introduction"--it means it has a Complete Collection of varying short starting point Introductions. Not that the Introductions are in anyway complete. A good chunk of the sections, if you are starting from little to nothing, would require other materials to be looked into for a more complete introduction on that subject
Great for Maths review. Not good for teaching yourself, if you haven't really done work on these subjects and are a bit rusty
To do it, I need to get really really good at Maths. Now, the astute amongst you might note that the current year is 2026. Well... stuff has happened in my life
Now, to review this book... it is not really good for somebody to Teach Themself Maths
It is a great book to review Maths information you've already learned, but are somewhat rusty with, and want to tune up your Maths knowledge in that area. If you already have been taught this stuff, but haven't done much with any of it--this book will have a bunch of bells and lights and what not going, "oh yeah... that is a thing, right". You know for that parts that are not "yep, pretty standard maths right there. That is another maths alright"
Which there _IS_ a market for a book to be picked up like that. I bought this book for that reason--expecting to read an entry level maths book, so that I could review maths and feel really really good about how much I'm getting right (to offset the few spots where I completely scuff it)
If you are buying this, under the notion of self-teaching Maths from a stance of learning it from not really knowing any Maths... this book is not really going to cut the Mustard
Various sections are very brief--giving summaries of various topics. Moving from assertion to assertion fairly quickly. That I'm not certain I'd have been satisfied with those assertions if I was not already somewhat aware of the concept being described. It does a lot of "this is a THING--a Maths THING--NO FURTHER EXPLANATION HERE--ACCEPT THE MATHS THING!"... and... for some Maths concepts that seems reasonable. Like, I don't need to have the various incorrect proofs of 1+1=2 to go over the ways that they differ from the correct proof of 1+1=2. Well, I don't need that in an introductory text on the subject. I do need those, as I have a really weird sense of humour that has people assuming I am heavily medicated on something. This book though--not the place for that
There are a few areas where it does elaborate closer to a sufficient amount. Mostly the earlier chapters
That being said, if it _was_ a proper way for somebody to come into stuff, the book would be three times as big
When the title says "Complete Introduction"--it means it has a Complete Collection of varying short starting point Introductions. Not that the Introductions are in anyway complete. A good chunk of the sections, if you are starting from little to nothing, would require other materials to be looked into for a more complete introduction on that subject
Great for Maths review. Not good for teaching yourself, if you haven't really done work on these subjects and are a bit rusty
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