Calculus & Its Applications

By Scott A. Surgent, Marvin L. Bittinger, David J. Ellenbogen, et al.

Book Overview

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Calculus and Its Applications, Thirteenth Edition is a comprehensive, yet flexible, text for students majoring in business, economics, life science, or social sciences. The authors delve into greater mathematical depth than other texts while motivating students through relevant, up-to-date, applications drawn from students' major fields of study. The authors motivate key ideas geometrically and intuitively, providing a solid foundation for the more abstract treatments that follow. Every chapter includes a large quantity of exceptional exercises--a hallmark of this text--that address skills, applications, concepts, and technology. The Thirteenth Edition includes updated applications, exercises, and technology coverage. The authors have also added more study tools, including a prerequisite skills diagnostic test and a greatly improved end-of-chapter summary, and made content improvements based on user reviews.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032184890X
• ISBN13: 9780321848901
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Ship Fast! Nice book.

I received it 2 days after seller shipped. All the pages are in very good condition. Covers are not bad. Really a nice book and nice price!

Great book :)

The book was in excellent quality and much cheaper than any bookstore offered it for.

A Readable Calculus Text

I teach a high school Calculus class for kids who are capable/competent mathematicians, but not really interested in the AP level at an independent school. We like Marv Bittinger's books because they provide a nice balance of applications and connections without losing sight of the math. We continue to use this out-of-date book because it is more readable than most Calculus texts and strikes a nice balance between the rigor of the math and applications that help students to feel a connection to the ideas. The organization of the material is pretty good, although I often salt in the introduction of simple trigonometric functions throughout my instruction, rather than waiting until the end of the course, where it appears in the book. We have found that our students have a lot of fun with the problems about exponential growth and decay, particularly the application of the laws of cooling in solving murders. It seems a little odd to nearly finish differentiation before exploring logarithms and then have to go back and consider derivatives again, but I have gotten used to that. Overall, I like the depth at which this book seeks to travel and the problems and explanations.

Very good for a beginner taking calculus

Its examples and explanations are very good. It contains the essentials of Calculus and good applications in many fields, e.g. biology, economics, etc.