Vector Calculus | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jerrold E. Marsden, Anthony Tromba
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 45905
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Fifth Edition
Pages: 704
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0716749920
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.63
EAN: 9780716749929
Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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This text helps students foster computational skills and intuitive understanding with a careful balance of theory, applications and optional materials. This edition offers revised coverage in several areas and a new section looking at applications to differential geometry, physics and forms of life as well as a large number of new exercises and expansion of the book's historical notes, which help students understand how calculus evolved by profiling important mathematicians. With its contemporary balance between theory, application and historical development the fifth edition gives an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.
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 The Perfect Book for Vector Calculus July 18, 1999
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
After you've learned calculus from a book like Stewart's, this is the definite next step. It includes lots of proofs for most of the theorems. I love the way the textbook is organized. And all the explanations are incredibly clear. The choice of notation makes all the formulas a lot clearer than in other books. Although I am not as big a fan of math as I am of physics, I must say that I really enjoyed reading this book a lot, and believe you will too. This book seriously makes advanced calculus incredibly fun!
Best Single Volume on Vector Calculus June 8, 2000
James M. Cargal (Montgomery, AL USA)
14 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book in its fourth edition benefits from revisions to earlier editions. For a short quick reference the book by Schey is delightful. Marsden and Tromba give a more thorough and complete work. It is well laid out and has good illustrations. One could look at this book as Calc III with applications. For most people that part of the calculus sequence was far too quick and terse. This book is the antidote. It is definitely worth considering for use in the junior-senior level course on vector calculus.
This book tells how to supplement multivariate calculus April 28, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The way this book explains calculus relating to multiple variables is somewhat different from old others. After reading from cover to cover, I come to settle many why and why in multiple calculus. If I have to read only two books in college, I will not hesitate to read this first.
The BEST book on undergraduate vector calculus September 2, 1999
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I taught myself vector calculus from this book. It is clear, concise, and fabulously well written. Though it doubtlessly makes an valuable reference, you will enjoy just reading it from cover to cover. Really a treat, worth the price.
mathematical beauty at its best August 26, 2001
karups (Berkeley, CA)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I love this textbook and highly recommend it to any math major. The book is fairly technical, but the explanations are brilliant. And the authors really do try to give the student an intuitive understanding of what the underlying concepts mean (e.g. the explanation of the curl operator). Like any technical text, don't expect to read it like a novel. Applications are of periphery importance in the text (if it doesn't have "Applications" in the title, don't expect applications!)
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