Algebra: A Complete Introduction: The Easy Way to Learn Algebra (Teach Yourself) by Hugh Neill (PDF)

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Algebra: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to using Algebra.Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studying for an important exam or essay, or if you simply want to improve your knowledge. The book covers all the key areas of algebra including elementary operations, linear equations, formulae, simultaneous equations, quadratic equations, logarithms, variation, laws and sequences.Everything you will need is here in this one book. Each chapter includes not only an explanation of the knowledge and skills you need, but also worked examples and test questions.Chapter 1: The meaning of algebraChapter 2: Elementary operations in algebraChapter 3: Brackets and operations with themChapter 4: Positive and negative numbersChapter 5: Equations and expressionsChapter 6: Linear equationsChapter 7: FormulaeChapter 8: Simultaneous equationsChapter 9: Linear inequalitiesChapter 10: Straight-line graphs; coordinatesChapter 11: Using inequalities to define regionsChapter 12: Multiplying algebraical expressions Chapter 13: FactorsChapter 14: FractionsChapter 15: Graphs of quadratic functionsChapter 16: Quadratic equationsChapter 17: IndicesChapter 18: LogarithmsChapter 19: Ratio and proportionChapter 20: VariationChapter 21: The determination of lawsChapter 22: Rational and irrational numbers and surdsChapter 23: Arithmetical and geometric sequences

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I thought it would be easier to understand, it isnt.

⭐Well written, easy to understand. It’s been about 17 years since I last did bonafide algebra, and this book is helping me tremendously.

⭐A nice review

⭐Good day. Great text and materials/subjects covered inside. Great buy!!

⭐You can do much better with old books written by Isidore Dressler and published by AMSCO

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⭐I wouldn’t recommend this book for a person wanting to learn algebra without having had it already in the past. It works beautifully as a refresher for those who had taken algebra years ago. The one thing that stood out was that the author assumed a lot of prior knowledge by not detailing steps such as going from (x-1)^2=4 to x-1=+-2. A beginner book would have shown the square root step. If you have a solid math background, it is easy to follow. If not, there are better step by step books available.

⭐Currently on page 200, have spent many many, many, hours painfully drudging through this book.Whether you’re in high school looking for an extra explanation and understanding that your maths teacher didn’t provide, or if you’re looking to learn for yourself from scratch later on, don’t bother with this book!Hoped to teach myself Algebra after a terrible experience in high school, can honestly say this book has been every bit as painful and incoherent as high school was.The first few chapters are extremely basic. After which the author is consistent in providing one or two examples of a concept with maybe a sentence of description and no insight, no explanation, no alternatives, and then expects you to answer 30 difficult questions on the matter. The ‘answers’ at the back of the book also show no working or give any further explanation, the author literally expects you to reverse engineer the working from the final answer and therefore reverse engineer the whole concepts he should be explaining. It becomes impossible to figure out where you’re going wrong in many cases. If I wanted a question book to test my existing knowledge, I would have bought that instead.To get anything out of this book I recommend downloading an equation solver app or something similar to use as an aide. At least that way you can check when you make mistakes and where you went wrong. Or, an even better alternative is just to buy a different book.

⭐Hugh Neil offers an exposition of school-level algebra which could be useful for those wishing to revisit already learned algebra, although whether it appeals more than, for instance, Algebra for Dummies is perhaps a personal matter.Seductive titles such as ‘The Easy Way to Learn …’ worry me. As Einstein put it ”Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.”Anyone baffled by an unpleasant school experience in mathematics – and I’d guess that would be very many of us – may like Lara Alcock’s ‘Mathematics Rebooted: A Fresh Approach to Understanding’. Lara’s book has so much to offer in terms of demystifying what with suitable teaching should have been less of a mystery than many of us found mathematics in school.Not that all mathematical difficulties can be down to prior teaching: mathematics symbolism itself is often ambiguous, e.g., 4½ means ‘four plus a half’, but 43 does not mean ‘4 + 3’, and 4m means ‘4 times m’. That is, the meaning of two juxtaposed mathematical items alters according to context. Learners have every right to be troubled by such varied meanings.Alcock’s ‘Mathematics Rebooted’ is not unprecedented in its attempt to enable understanding: ‘Vision in Elementary Mathematics’ by W. W. Sawyer dates back to 1964. It is a book with appeal to the visual that may delight not a few readers who would like to draw back the mathematical curtain.

⭐I previously bought a Trigonometry book by the same author. My dislike for that book was it would give maybe 2 simple examples, then several hard exercises that are not covered in the examples. This is also the same with this book too. It says a complete introduction. The first few pages are literally basics, almost too simple and lot of information to inwardly digest. He just seems to waffle. I learned more on YouTube in 5 minutes than this book taught me in an hour. I shall avoid this author as it is the second I have returned from him. I have other book that are far easier to use. Shame, given it is quite highly rated. My review is echoed from others on different publishers sites

⭐I have only just started on this book and so far it has been excellent. I am very much a beginner so it is rather hard to decide which book is going to be the one to start on, as there is a great number to choose from. This book describes everything very clearly with the added bonus of being able to work out some of the set problems yourself. I am looking forward to going much further into this somewhat mysterious method of maths.

⭐As a ‘returner’ to maths (took my O level decades ago) I bought this book to help myself prepare for a maths course later in the year. This book is well set out with examples and lots of practice exercises. The answers are available at the back of the book although – be warned – the workings are not provided but this only serves to make the exercises more challenging and interesting. I bought the paperback edition as I find it so much easier to study and revise with a book rather than viewing a Kindle.

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