Exercises appear at the end of every section (with the exception of the sections in chapter 1, Prologue), and a comprehensive set of exercises concludes every chapter. In total, there are more than 1,350 exercises, ranging from trivial mechanical exercises to difficult derivations, proofs, and analyses.
Many of the more challenging exercises provide too little data or too much data. Or they ask for explanations or plausibility arguments or similarities or differences. All are substantial departures from the ``plug 'n' chug'' exercises with unique answers to which many students are accustomed. In recompense, some students will also discover that mathematics is much more interesting than they thought.