Download or read book Precalculus written by Sheldon Axler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheldon Axler's Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus, 3rd Edition focuses only on topics that students actually need to succeed in calculus. This book is geared towards courses with intermediate algebra prerequisites and it does not assume that students remember any trigonometry. It covers topics such as inverse functions, logarithms, half-life and exponential growth, area, e, the exponential function, the natural logarithm and trigonometry.