

This respected text makes extensive use of applications and features items such as historical vignettes to make the material useful and interesting. The text is written for the one-term analytic geometry course, often taught in sequence with college algebra, and is designed for...



Riddle's goal is to make the presentaion of analytic geometry interesting, clear and simple. He does this by using vectors, to explain ideas in the simplest form; by including numerous applications; and by writing well.