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^^Agreed. If anybody has the time, check the ridiculousness of exercise 32 (c) question 8.
 

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I would say Patel is probably the best book by itself. The questions vary in difficulty and unlike fitzpatrick, patel actually has the graphs drawn.
Arnold & Arnold (Cambridge) is also a good book to study off, but some of the sets are a bit short
 

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i have

fitzpatrick; pretty basic, a gud starting point tho
cambrige; harder sort of questions
terry lee; a sad joke at best
 

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I rekon Fitzpatrick has quite long, repetitive and mechanical exercises. Cambridge are much shorter, to the point and with various types and difficulties.
 

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is Patel the Excel book? does that have good questions?

also i recently got Coroneus which is good, but not always relevant
 

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is Patel the Excel book? does that have good questions?

also i recently got Coroneus which is good, but not always relevant
Well Patel wrote his own 4 Unit Maths textbook but he also wrote 4 unit Excel
 

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is Patel the Excel book? does that have good questions?

also i recently got Coroneus which is good, but not always relevant
No, it's true that Patel is the author of MX2 books for excel series, but there is a separate blue-coloured book by Patel. It was also published by the same publisher (i.e.Pascal Press).

It is very thorough but sometimes, like in graphs chapter, it isn't so good.
 

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yea i found it on the internet "Foundations of 4 Unit". i never thought of buying patel becuase when i saw the excel book i thought that was it and the excel book looked useless. so is this other Patel a good book compared to Cambridge, Coroneus, Lee and Fitzpatrick? and is the excel book anything like it and does anyone like the excel book for any reason? it didnt seem to have many questions let alone any ones that arent in other books
 

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yea i found it on the internet "Foundations of 4 Unit". i never thought of buying patel becuase when i saw the excel book i thought that was it and the excel book looked useless. so is this other Patel a good book compared to Cambridge, Coroneus, Lee and Fitzpatrick? and is the excel book anything like it and does anyone like the excel book for any reason? it didnt seem to have many questions let alone any ones that arent in other books
I think Foundation of 4 Unit is an old edition. Be sure to buy the '2nd edition' if you are going to get one. (Btw there are two different versions of book cover for the 2nd edition, one being older than the other. But as long as it's the '2nd edition,' the contents are exactly the same.)

I'm using Patel, Fitzpatrick, and Cambridge and I don't know anything about other books. Within those three, I think Cambridge is the best in terms of quality of questions, but Patel is a little more thorough and provides many more questions (But I cbb to do them since there are too many). Fitzpatrick was alright, but it wasn't thorough enough to be used alone.
Overall, Camb>Patel>Fitz IMO.
 

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yea i found it on the internet "Foundations of 4 Unit". i never thought of buying patel becuase when i saw the excel book i thought that was it and the excel book looked useless. so is this other Patel a good book compared to Cambridge, Coroneus, Lee and Fitzpatrick? and is the excel book anything like it and does anyone like the excel book for any reason? it didnt seem to have many questions let alone any ones that arent in other books
From what I know... the book Patel has on his own is a good book, and provides good questions
 

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hey guys: for harder 3U questions , Higher Algebra by Hall & Knight (first published in 1887, Macmillan) is a rich additional source of questions on inequalities. But where is one to find a copy of this book? Most of them have been discarded long ago.
 

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maybe theres an e-book of it
An ancient neighbour of yours may still have a dusty copy lying around in his old garage.

60/70 yrs ago there were very few maths textbooks unlike the 100s at yr disposal nowadays. Hall & Knight would have been a standard text for the relative few who did maths at that level. It must have been the grand daddy of maths textbooks and many subsequent & more modern texts must have used it as a resource.

On looking up the web I'm surprised it appears to be some current interest in a number of countries, e.g. India. I was also surprised to learn that photocopy versions of it is being used in some of the more competitive Chinese-medium schools in Malaysia.
 
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I have a copy of it, the fourth edition [1891] , as an Ebook...

I would be willing to send it to a few people, over msn strictly...pm me please
 
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what do you guys reckon the best book for explaining the theory is? like i want to go ahead of my class but cbf'd getting a tutor
 

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