Applied Calculus | 
 enlarge | Authors: Deborah Hughes-hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. Mccallum, Brad G. Osgood, Douglas Quinney, Karen Rhea, Jeff Tecosky-feldman, Thomas W. Tucker, Otto K. Bretscher, Sheldon P. Gordon, Eric Connally
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 397
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471681210
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780471681212
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
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APPLIED CALCULUS, 3/E brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula to meet the needs of today's students. The author team's extensive teaching experience and proven ability to write innovative and relevant problems has made this text a true bestseller. Exciting new real-world applications make this new edition even more meaningful to students in management, life and social sciences. This book will work well for those departments seeking a middle ground for their instructors. APPLIED CALCULUS, 3/E exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the "Rule of Four", an emphasis on concepts and modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students.
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 Excellent Choice for the Non-Math Student March 31, 2007
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a magnificant calculus book. It is aimed at students in business, the social sciences, and the life sciences. This is done by first the examples and problems. But perhaps even more important the wording of the text is such that these students will understand what they are trying to convey and to clearly show them how calculus can be used to solve problems in their particular field.
At the beginning of the book, three pages of the Preface, the applications discussed in the text are listed by: Business and Economics, Life Sciences and Ecology, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences. Under these headings are subjects like: Value of a Car, AIDS, Cancer Rates, Abortion Rate and so on. These are subjects that will have some interest and applicability to students rather than the old traditional problems like water flowing into and out of a bucket that used to be the mainstream of teaching calculus.
Finally, calculus marks a transition in the study of mathematics for a student. Up until now he studied arithmetic every year in school, maybe he finally got to a bit of algebra and trig. Now he is exposed to a whole new world of ways to handle problems that go beyond anything he has seen before. This book eases the student into an understanding of how to approach these problems better than any I've seen.
 Harvard January 30, 2007
Jim Curry (MT)
2 out of 28 found this review helpful
Sorry to bother you with this review. The authors of this book are distinguished professors at Harvard University (a fine school, no matter what anyone says). Professor Gleason, in particular, is a mathematician of world-historical importance. In a sense, taking lectures from Gleason is not worse than having a lecture from Laplace or Poincare or any of the other great lights of mathematics. I confess that I haven't seen the book or held it between my hands, but I couldn't just leave it here with only a one star review of a disgruntled student. Really, the book has to be better than a single star if Gleason even held it in his hand once.
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