Moll (Tulane U.) has collected additional notes he gave to his students in a variety of mathematics courses, primarily putting the specific topic of the course--calculus, combinatorics, real analysis, and so on--in the context of mathematics as a whole. In some way or another, each looks at elementary functions from the perspective of experimental mathematics. The topics include the number systems, polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions, and Landen transformations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)