Sheldon Axler’s Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus, 3rd Edition focuses only on topics that students actually need to succeed in calculus. This book is geared towards courses with intermediate algebra prerequisites and it does not assume that students remember any trigonometry. It covers topics such as inverse functions, logarithms, half-life and exponential growth, area, e, the exponential function, the natural logarithm and trigonometry. Additional ISBNs 1119334764Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus 3rd Edition by Sheldon Axler and Publisher Wiley. ISBN:. The print version of this textbook is ISBN:.