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Title: 'Elementary' Functions - Not!
Review: I have the first 1968 publication which was used in a JC 'College Algebra' class. I found this book overly presumptuous. Yes, it is tauted as a Pre-Calculus text but to me you better have some Calculus background first. In fact, a Business Calculus class prerequisite would be advised.Why create and teach from a book for 'foundations' of Calculus, with f(x) assumptive references, when the student has no idea what Calculus is? This book is a dry collection of functions that are used in Calculus - period. I took Calculus later on and did fine and still dabble in Abstract Algebra and Classical Complex Analysis. I would offer that if you are going to begin to learn Calculus, use the functions needed as you go; otherwise, what's the point?
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