MATH 1523: Precalculus Textbook

Abstract

This textbook was used at the University of Oklahoma in MATH 1523 during the fall semester of 2018. It is a modified version of the OpenStax Precalculus textbook. The original version of this book is available for free at: http://cnx.org/content/col11667/latest MATH 1523 Course Description: Prerequisite: 1503 at OU, or satisfactory score on the placement test, or, for incoming freshmen direct from high school, satisfactory score on the ACT/SAT. Review of function concepts. Topics covered include properties of functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions and their inverses by unit circle and triangle approaches, trigonometric equations and identities, simple conic sections, polar coordinates, Demoivre’s theorem, discrete algebra, induction, limits and continuity.