Calculus and Its Applications (10th Edition)

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

Book Overview

Calculus and Its Applications, Tenth Edition , remains a best-selling text because of its accessible presentation that anticipates student needs. The writing style is ideal for today's readers, providing intuitive explanations that work with the carefully crafted artwork to help them visualize new calculus concepts. Additionally, the text's numerous and up-to-date applications from business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences help motivate readers. Algebra diagnostic and review material is available for those who need to strengthen basic skills. Every aspect of this revision is designed to motivate and help readers to more readily understand and apply the mathematics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321694333
• ISBN13: 9780321694331
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.1" x 8.6"

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 We continue to use this out-of-date book because it is more readable than most Calculus texts and strikes a nice balance between the rigor of the math and applications that help students to feel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.