AN ADVANCED COURSE IN ALGEBRA

By K. KUMIT

1 FUNCTIONS 1 2 INEQUALITIES AND ABSOLUTE VALUES 39 3 SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS 55 4 QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS 65 5 EXPONENTS 87 6 LOGARITHMS 100 7 RATIONAL EXPRESSIONS 108 8 RADICALS 120 9 IMAGINARY NUMBERS 128 10 MATRICES 136 11 MODELING DATA WITH FUNCTIONS 160 12 CONICS 172 13 SEQUENCES AND SERIES 196 14 PROBABILITY 202