The new edition contains one additional section at the end of the book on probability, and now covers the first year syllabus as fully as possible. This is how you make a difference during your time here, and while you’re at it, add valuable stuff to your CV, give back to the communities you’re living in and discover London in a unique way.

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IhadandstillhaveanexcellentsetofmathsnotesfromhigherandthefirstsemesteroffirstyearthatseemtocovereverythinginthebasicversionofStroud. Its unique approach takes you through all the mathematics you need in a step-by-step fashion with a wealth of examples and exercises. Booth was formerly Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield, UK. So I started from a basic level (I did brush up on some basics on Khan Academy and elsewhere) but as I did more and more of this book my confidence and ability in maths increased significantly. Certain chapters felt outdated and leaned on repetitive computations or even Excel, but I enjoyed sections on integral calculus and Laplace transform and learned a few new tricks.

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