Single Variable Calculus

By James Stewart

James Stewart has carefully and completely revised the best-selling calculus text in North America, retaining the focus on problem solving, the meticulous accuracy, the patient explanations, and the carefully graded problems that have made this text work so well for a wide range of students. In the new edition, Stewart has increased his emphasis on technology and innovation and has expanded his focus on problem-solving and applications. ..When writing his previous editions, Stewart set out to bring some of the spirit of Polya to his presentation. This resulted in the ''strategy sections'' in the First Edition and the ''Problems Plus'' and ''Applications Plus'' sections in the Second Edition. Now in the Third Edition, he extends the idea further with a new section on ''Principles of Problem Solving'' and new extended examples in the ''Problems Plus''and ''Applications Plus'' sections. Stewart makes a serious attempt to help students reason mathematically.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534218040
• ISBN13: 9780534218041
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

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If you've ever read Stewart's Calculus book, you know that it's quite thorough -- sometimes excessively. It's nice to have all the information you will ever need for a topic and more, but sometimes it can be a little cumbersome finding the most important material. (Especially when cramming after completing a major programming assignment and reading two 300 page British Lit books!) This book will effectively let you sit down and get to the point of a topic so that you can learn the basics. Then, if you need to know more, you can always consult the enormous hardcover text. (Did I mention it has great review problems?) It's a great companion to the text, but my only complaint is that some of the topics, though more concise, are still just as confusing to understand.