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1、PROFESSIONALGUIDESDictionaryofMathematicsTermsThirdEdition•Morethan800termsrelatedtoalgebra,geometry,analyticgeometry,trigonometry,probability,statistics,logic,andcalculus•Anidealreferenceformathstudents,teachers,engineers,andstatisticians•Filledwithillustrativediagr
2、amsandaquick-referenceformulasummaryDouglasDowning,Ph.D.DictionaryofMathematicsTermsThirdEditionDictionaryofMathematicsTermsThirdEditionDouglasDowning,Ph.D.SchoolofBusinessandEconomicsSeattlePacificUniversityDedicationThisbookisforLori.AcknowledgmentsDeepestthankstoM
3、ichaelCovington,JeffreyClark,andRobertDowningfortheirspecialhelp.©Copyright2009byBarron’sEducationalSeries,Inc.Prioreditions©copyright1995,1987.Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedordistributedinanyformorbyanymeanswithoutthewrittenpermissionofthec
4、opyrightowner.Allinquiriesshouldbeaddressedto:Barron’sEducationalSeries,Inc.250WirelessBoulevardHauppauge,NewYork11788www.barrronseduc.comISBN-13:978-0-7641-4139-3ISBN-10:0-7641-4139-2LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008931689PRINTEDINCHINA987654321CONTENTSPrefaceviLi
5、stofSymbolsixMathematicsTerms1Appendix381AlgebraSummary381GeometrySummary382TrigonometrySummary384BriefTableofIntegrals388PREFACEMathematicsconsistsofrigorousabstractreasoning.Atfirst,itcanbeintimidating;butlearningaboutmathcanhelpyouappreciateitsgreatpracticaluseful
6、nessandevenitsbeauty—bothforthevisualappealofgeometricformsandtheconciseeleganceofsymbolicformulasexpressingcomplicatedideas.Imaginethatyouaretobuildabridge,oraradio,orabookcase.Ineachcaseyoushouldplanfirst,beforebegin-ningtobuild.Intheprocessofplanningyouwilldevelop
7、anabstractmodelofthefinishedobject—andwhenyoudothat,youaredoingmathematics.Thepurposeofthisbookistocollectinoneplaceref-erenceinformationthatisvaluableforstudentsofmath-ematicsandforpersonswithcareersthatusemath.Thebookcoversmathematicsthatisstudiedinhighschoolandthe
8、earlyyearsofcollege.Thesearesomeofthegen-eralsubjectsthatareincluded(alongwithalistofafewentriescontaininginformationthatcouldhelpy
