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- From: dpick@math.uci.edu (Daniel Pick)
- Subject: Undergraduate textbooks
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:48:27 GMT
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- Has anyone else noticed that the problems that beset secondary school texts
- occur in undergraduate texts as well? For example, the text for the upper
- division analysis course here at UCI is Ross' Elementary Analysis: The Theory
- of Calculus. This book contains many exercises which depend on extensive
- algebraic manipulations for their solution, in other words, busywork.
- More often than not, these kinds of exercises obscure the author's points
- and 'turn off' otherwise interested students. How do we get better
- texts into the classroom, or conversely, how do we discourage publishers
- from printing this stuff? I, for one, refuse to buy these kinds of texts.
-
- --Dan 8^)
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- Daniel Pick
- University of California, Irvine
- Irvine, CA 92715
- dpick@math.uci.edu
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