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LSDwhat?
Aug19-09, 11:29 AM
I need to relearn and refresh my memory with everything thats is pre calculus so is there any good book that you guys can recommend me ?

colonelcrayon
Aug19-09, 07:22 PM
The Blitzer book is okay.

thrill3rnit3
Aug20-09, 08:43 PM
I used Swokowski and Cole's book and it wasn't that bad.

Reedeegi
Aug20-09, 09:10 PM
Are you looking for a pure, proof-based approach or an applied approach?

If you're looking for a pure pre-calculus book, I would have to recommend Shilov's Elementary Real and Complex Analysis, from which the first 6 chapters essentially cover (albeit more rigorously and abstractly than most courses) Pre-Calculus, the next 4 chapters covering calculus/introductory analysis and then a chapter on complex analysis.

If you want a more applied choice, most every high-school pre-calculus text should be sufficient.