Mary Jane Sterling

Mary Jane Sterling’s Followers (6)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Mary Jane Sterling



Average rating: 3.92 · 1,074 ratings · 78 reviews · 39 distinct worksSimilar authors
Algebra I for Dummies

3.88 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2001 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Trigonometry For Dummies

3.77 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra II For Dummies

4.06 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2004 — 29 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Linear Algebra For Dummies

3.64 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra I Workbook For Dummies

4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra II for Dummies

3.98 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Trigonometry Workbook For D...

3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra Workbook for Dummies

3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra II Essentials For D...

3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Algebra I: 1,001 Practice P...

4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Mary Jane Sterling…
Quotes by Mary Jane Sterling  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Taking on the Negativity of Exponents”
Mary Jane Sterling, Algebra I Essentials For Dummies

“The ancient Greek mathematician Ptolemy was born some time at the end of the first century. Ptolemy based his version of trigonometry on the relationships between the chords of circles and the corresponding central angles of those chords. Ptolemy came up with a theorem involving four-sided figures that you can construct with the chords. In the meantime, mathematicians in India decided to use the measure of half a chord and half the angle to try to figure out these relationships. Drawing a radius from the center of a circle through the middle of a chord (halving it) forms a right angle, which is important in the definitions of the trig functions. These half-measures were the beginning of the sine function in trigonometry. In fact, the word sine actually comes from the Hindu name jiva.”
Mary Jane Sterling, Trigonometry For Dummies

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
2024 Reading Chal...: Grace's 125 in 2016 144 202 Dec 31, 2016 12:58PM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Mary to Goodreads.