Fundamentals of Trigonometry

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Summary: I've read better math books.........
Review: I read this book in a college mathematics course called college trigonometry. In its explanations of some of the mathematical concepts, the book is way too specific in Chapter 1. The other chapters were way too vauge, and give very little real-world applications in the understanding of the mathematical concepts. This is just the way I saw it. The writer also uses the letters "u" and "v" as variables. This is not good, because of the confusion of the letters "u" and "v" looking the same or very similar when the student writes them down. Also greek letters used for angles, is more confusing than necessary. The excersises at the end of the sections were ok, however, they were repetitive. By this I mean the writer has the same problems over and over again, but increasing slightly in difficulty. There needs to be more real world applications in this book to explain mathematical ideas. Also there are only answers provided in the back of the book and in the student guide to the odd numbered problems. I think a student could do much better in this course if the answers were provided to all the questions, and they were more thouroughly explained in the solutions manual. It would be a good idea to revise this (The students Solutions Manual) The author solves the problems in a hurry, and does not take the time to go through them step by step, which is very important in learning mathematics. Overall I thought the book was written using concepts that were really hard to understand the way they were explained. The only thing that I found helpful about the book was the practice problems, and with some of the issues that I mentioned about varibles, and angle variables, even the practice problems were difficult.