Background
Sheldon was born on November 6, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morton and Evelyn Klein Axler.
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This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition. Sheldon Axler's Precalculus focuses only on topics that students actually need to succeed in calculus. Because of this, Precalculus is a very manageable size even though it includes a student solutions manual. The 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. The Student Solutions Manual is integrated at the end of every section. The proximity of the solutions encourages students to go back and read the main text as they are working through the problems and exercises. The inclusion of the manual also saves students money. Axler's Precalculus is available with WileyPLUS, a research-based, online environment for effective teaching and learning. WileyPLUS sold separately from text.
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mathematician university professor
Sheldon was born on November 6, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morton and Evelyn Klein Axler.
Sheldon obtained his AB in mathematics with highest honors at Princeton University (1971) and his Ph.D. in mathematics, under professor Donald Sarason, from the University of California, Berkeley (1975, Dissertation: "Subalgebras of L∞"). As a postdoc, he was a Moore Instructor at MIT.
He has made contributions to mathematics education, publishing several mathematics textbooks. He went to Palmetto High School at Miami, Florida (1967). He taught for many years and became a Full Professor at Michigan State University.
In 1997 Axler moved to San Francisco State University where he became the Chair of the Mathematics Department. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was an Associate Editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and the Editor-in-Chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer.
Axler's book Linear Algebra Done Right eschews the use of determinants, in favor of other methods.
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Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American.