What book should be used to study further mathematics?

[Buckminster]

My cousin plan to take further math in stpm.but the problem is,she cant find any suitable book as a referrence.can somebody help my cousin?

[Nicholasng925]

My cousin plan to take further math in stpm.but the problem is,she cant find any suitable book as a referrence.can somebody help my cousin?

1. Gaulter, B. & Gaulter, M., Further Pure Mathematics, Oxford, 2001.
It covers Complex Numbers, Matrices, Functions, Differentiation and integration, Power series, Differential equations,Coordinate geometry.

2. Bostock, L., Chandler, S., & Rourke, C., Further Pure Mathematics, Stanley Thornes, 1982 (Reprinted 2002).
This book acts as the helper for the previous one. The only important thing in this book is actually Transformation Geometry. But because the previous book is a "book of little words", this one gives the explanations.

3. Rosen, K. H., Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Fifth Edition), McGraw-Hill, 2003.
or
4. Scheinerman, E. R., Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction, Brooks/Cole, 2000.
You need this book to do Logic and Proof, Recurrence Relations, Number Theory and Graph Theory. But the rest are far out of the syllabus. Can't help, cos STPM Further Maths don't have a all-in-one book... This is the most expensive one.

The above 3 is very important. They cost around RM90 to RM110 each. You must have them to study. Then you might no need to buy these books below, but just look for them, because you only need a little from them:

3. Anton, H., Bivens, I., & Davis, S., Calculus (Seventh Edition), John Wiley, 2002.
You need it for reference on Taylor's Polynomial, Continuity and Differentiability and Parametric and Implicit Derivation of d2y/dx2.

6. Crawshaw, J. & Chambers, J., A concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics (Fourth Edition), Nelson Thornes, 2001.
I won't stop you if you want to buy this, because it is really complete for the statistics part. I have this in my school library, so i asked permission from my library teacher for photocopy for chi-squared, Sampling & Estimation, Correlation & Regression, Hypothesis Testing.


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[Buckminster]

1. Gaulter, B. & Gaulter, M., Further Pure Mathematics, Oxford, 2001.
It covers Complex Numbers, Matrices, Functions, Differentiation and integration, Power series, Differential equations,Coordinate geometry.

2. Bostock, L., Chandler, S., & Rourke, C., Further Pure Mathematics, Stanley Thornes, 1982 (Reprinted 2002).
This book acts as the helper for the previous one. The only important thing in this book is actually Transformation Geometry. But because the previous book is a "book of little words", this one gives the explanations.

3. Rosen, K. H., Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Fifth Edition), McGraw-Hill, 2003.
or
4. Scheinerman, E. R., Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction, Brooks/Cole, 2000.
You need this book to do Logic and Proof, Recurrence Relations, Number Theory and Graph Theory. But the rest are far out of the syllabus. Can't help, cos STPM Further Maths don't have a all-in-one book... This is the most expensive one.

The above 3 is very important. They cost around RM90 to RM110 each. You must have them to study. Then you might no need to buy these books below, but just look for them, because you only need a little from them:

3. Anton, H., Bivens, I., & Davis, S., Calculus (Seventh Edition), John Wiley, 2002.
You need it for reference on Taylor's Polynomial, Continuity and Differentiability and Parametric and Implicit Derivation of d2y/dx2.

6. Crawshaw, J. & Chambers, J., A concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics (Fourth Edition), Nelson Thornes, 2001.
I won't stop you if you want to buy this, because it is really complete for the statistics part. I have this in my school library, so i asked permission from my library teacher for photocopy for chi-squared, Sampling & Estimation, Correlation & Regression, Hypothesis Testing.


*Copy paste from some old posts available in ReCom.*

where can I find those books? :))

[Nicholasng925]

where can I find those books? :))

MPH? Just search around various bookstores and I'm sure you can eventually find it. :)

[Buckminster]

hey,about this book..
discrete mathematics and its applications,should I get the 5th edition or the 6th edition?

[Nicholasng925]

hey,about this book..
discrete mathematics and its applications,should I get the 5th edition or the 6th edition?

If there is 6th edition, I think the latest one would be better than the previous one. :)

[Hanqing]

hey,about this book..
discrete mathematics and its applications,should I get the 5th edition or the 6th edition?

If you are interested in getting a softcopy of discrete mathematics and its applications 6th edition, you may pm me and i will give you the links as i am not sure whether sharing this book is legal here

[Buckminster]

MPH? Just search around various bookstores and I'm sure you can eventually find it. :)

Only several MPH bookstore outlet that sell A-level reference book.where did you get those books from,I mean which outlet did you go?

[Nicholasng925]

Only several MPH bookstore outlet that sell A-level reference book.where did you get those books from,I mean which outlet did you go?

I'm not taking STPM, so I didn't buy all the books in the list, but only certain book. Also, I didn't buy any original book for my study. I'm studying Further Maths in A-Levels now, and this is only my first month of studying it. I'm using totally different books from the STPM list, so I couldn't comment much on that.

But for this common book below, I think you might want to have a look at the MAC Centre directly in front of Taylor's College Subang Jaya, where you can get the photocopied book with perfect binding, or just a mere normal binding if you don't mind, which I think you won't unless you are rich. You might also want to ask them whether they are selling the photocopied version for the other books in the list, perhaps they do. :)

Crawshaw, J. & Chambers, J., A concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics (Fourth Edition), Nelson Thornes, 2001.