With its combination of concepts and skill-building, as well as the focus on functions, the new third edition better prepares readers for calculus. In order to make this complex subject more engaging, the authors incorporate the rule of four, superior exercises, a concise presentation, rich real-world data and an appropriate integration of technology. They also introduce linear, exponential, power, and periodic functions before polynomial and rational functions to take advantage of their use to model physical phenomena.
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