College Liberal Arts Mathematics

Author: Chen Guangshu
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is written by frontline teachers engaged in liberal arts mathematics teaching, based on the current teaching guidance for liberal arts mathematics courses in general universities and the spirit of textbook reform. It explains the basic knowledge of university liberal arts mathematics in an accessible manner. The book emphasizes the introduction of mathematical thinking and basic logical reasoning training, introducing fundamental mathematical concepts from various perspectives. It provides some relevant proofs and solution processes. Due to the time constraints in university liberal arts mathematics, the content of higher mathematics, linear algebra, and probability theory has been appropriately streamlined in the selection and organization of the textbook. The book is well-structured, logically clear, easy to understand, with appropriately selected examples, and suitable difficulty, making it ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and associate degree students in liberal arts disciplines to systematically learn the basic ideas and methods of university mathematics. It can also be used as a textbook for relevant economics and management programs at secondary vocational and technical levels. Based on the current teaching guidance for liberal arts mathematics courses in general universities and the spirit of textbook reform, the book explains the basic knowledge of university liberal arts mathematics in an accessible manner, covering seven chapters: functions, limits, and continuity; integral calculus of single-variable functions; calculus of two-variable functions; an introduction to ordinary differential equations; an introduction to linear algebra; and an introduction to elementary probability theory.