Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
by Bruce H. Edwards, Robert P. Hostetler, Ron Larson
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Author: Bruce H. Edwards, Robert P. Hostetler, Ron LarsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-03
ISBN: 0618606246
Number of pages: 1138
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Reviews of Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
Book Review: The intended audience is important.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is geared towards engineering and not mathematics majors. Additional visual aides are presented along with multiple applications per topic, as opposed to formal proofs which are typically found in books favored by mathematicians. Much of how I feel about this book can be found in response to a review currently listed as the most helpful critical review (one star), but for convenience I will list my main points here.
If you are someone who learns by visual representations of topics if it is possible to do so, then more than likely you will find this book to be one of the easiest ways to learn calculus. Every topic has a plethora of visual aides and a prose writing style to accompany those aides without ever feeling cluttered.
For those who need to see why this math even exists in order to help bolster your understanding, the book gives you a variety applications for each topic in the exercises. These exercises also often come with visual aides to help make sure you understand the question being asked. The text even has an "index of applications", which lists the page numbers of every application demonstrated throughout the material.
If you are a mathematics major, this book may still teach you calculus just fine but you might be in a disadvantage later for when constructing formal proofs becomes necessary. I am not saying formal proofs are required to understand calculus, but for aspiring mathematicians it may be good to get early exposure to them. For the lack of a better term, proofs are slightly downplayed in this text in favor of what I mentioned in the second and third paragraphs. The book has proofs but they are a bit "watered down" compared to more rigorous methods you may find in other books. Even so, you may still benefit from having this text as supplemental material especially when factoring in the average price for this edition.
Summary of Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus course, Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, 4/e, continues to offer instructors and students innovative teaching and learning resources. Two primary objectives guided the authors in the revision of this book: to develop precise, readable materials for students that clearly define and demonstrate concepts and rules of calculus; and to design comprehensive teaching resources for instructors that employ proven pedagogical techniques and save time. The Larson/Hostetler/Edwards Calculus program offers a solution to address the needs of any calculus course and any level of calculus student. Every edition from the first to the fourth of Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, 4/e has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas. Now, the Fourth Edition is part of the first calculus program to offer algorithmic homework and testing created in Maple so that answers can be evaluated with complete mathematical accuracy.Mathematics Books
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