
Our Story
As an author and educator for over thirty-five years, I have watched with dismay the disproportionate increase in the price of textbooks over the past several decades. This has placed an undue burden on the backs of many students.
STP Publishing was formed, in part, to address this problem. Its sole purpose is to make the series of mathematics textbooks by Soo T. Tan available to students at an affordable price. All books, however, will have the same quality as those of the previous editions of the books by the author.
Ancillary material such as student solution manuals and web homework will also be made available at a very affordable price without any sacrifice to their quality.

Acknowledgments
The author wishes to express his heartfelt thanks to the following reviewers for their many helpful comments and suggestions.
Arun Agarwal
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