Second Edition
Devinder Sivia, Joanna Rhodes, and Steve Rawlings
November 2020
ISBN: 9780198797548
200 pages
Paperback
246x189mm
In Stock
Price: £24.99Foundations of Science Mathematics provides a clear, concise and accessible introduction to the maths skills required to be successful in your study of science subjects, alongside over 90 problems and worked solutions.
Foundations of Science Mathematics provides a clear, concise and accessible introduction to the maths skills required to be successful in your study of science subjects, alongside over 90 problems and worked solutions.
New to this edition
Devinder Sivia, Joanna Rhodes, and Steve Rawlings
Devinder S. Sivia read Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at St John's College, Cambridge, and completed a PhD with the Radio Astronomy Group at the Cavendish Laboratory. After a three-year PostDoctoral Fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA, he returned to England as a Staff Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He has been teaching Mathematics to science undergraduates at St Catherine's College, and St. John's College, Oxford, for 30 years.
Joanna L. Rhodes read Chemistry as an undergraduate at St Catherine's College, Oxford and completed her DPhil at St John's College specialising in electrochemistry as part of the Compton Group of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory. She then went on to teach Chemistry, becoming Director of Science and Assistant Principal, at Shelley College, West Yorkshire. She is currently Director of Sixth Form at Wakefield Girls' High School, West Yorkshire.
"The answers to the worked examples are superb, very instructive, and include detailed sketches." - Dr Athanasia Dervisi, Cardiff University
"There is a selection of worked examples in a chemistry context which help students to apply maths more efficiently in their chemistry modules." - Dr Gita Sedghi, University of Liverpool
"Excellent, concise coverage of basic algebra." - Prof Scott Woodley, University College London
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