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William G. McCallum,
Deborah Hughes Hallett,
Andrew M. Gleason,
David O. Lomen,
David Lovelock,
Jeff Tecosky-Feldman,
Thomas W. Tucker,
Daniel E. Flath,
Joseph Thrash,
Karen R. Rhea,
Andrew Pasquale,
Sheldon P. Gordon,
Douglas Quinney,
Patti Frazer Lock
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN num: 9780470131589
ISBN number: 0470131586
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Page Count: 480
Printing Date: December 03, 2008
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CALCULUS 5/e brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innovative problems put them in an unique position to make this new curriculum meaningful to students going into mathematics and those going into the sciences and engineering. The authors believe this edition will work well for those departments who are looking for a calculus book that offers a middle ground for their calculus instructors.
CALCULUS 5/e exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students.
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I can only speak to the "content" of this book and not the problems since my professor didn't give out bookwork.
I can say that this book is about as useful in teaching vector calculus as wikipedia. Rather than starting off with the topics in a clear and concise manner, this book seems to enjoy starting with page-long proofs of why these theorems are true. Great for math majors...as an engineering student...proofs are a waste of time. Then instead of giving simple examples to start with before leading into more advanced applications, the meager 2 examples present for each topic are the most difficult and obscure ones possible. The explanations for the examples were even worse- paragraphs that assume the reader already knows how to do the problems. Eventually I found myself just looking towards google or hunting down the professor to answer most of my questions.
The reason I gave this book 2 stars instead of 1 is that it is fairly decent in review. All of the theorems are nicely boxed out and easy to see. In summary, you'd love this book if you enjoy hacking through a dense jungle of difficult material. However, if you're actually looking at this book it's probably required material anyways.
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The idea of a solutions manual is fantastic. It's a quick, convenient way to see how to solve problems.
Unfortunately, this book falls short in several ways.
First, only EVERY OTHER ODD problem is covered. That means, in a typical chapter, only 5-10 problems are covered. For a course as difficult as Multivariable Calculus, this is woefully inadequate.
Second, many of the "solutions" are NOT solutions. They are answers. You will frequently find just the answer given with no explanation of how the solution was derived. In the back of the actual textbook is the answer to EVERY odd numbered problem. So to reprint just the answer in a new book is a waste of paper. Why spend $34 on a solutions manual that gives the same info that the back of the text has?
Third, for the solutions that are explained, they aren't explained very well. You will frequently find a sequence of algebraic operations, but nothing saying how they went from one step to the next. The authors apparently expect you to know, but if you did, why would you need a solutions manual?
This solutions manual CAN be helpful, but just be aware that your $34 isn't going to get you very much help.
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As you browse books in Amazon, you might think: "oh, yet another Calculus book."
First, let me begin by putting this book in its proper context: it is a Calculus 2 book, but not an Advanced Calculus book.
But this book has some qualities that set it apart from the heap of Calculus books. First of all, it is the fruition of a Harvard-based consortium with a grant from the National Science Foundation to write a "new" Calculus book. What's new about it? Well, it is based on an "old" philosophy, that I'll paraphrase from the Preface: Calculus was invented to solve problems! So, using Calculus, you can reduce complicated problems to simple ones. Central to this unified, application-oriented approach, every topic is presented numerically, geometrically, and algebraically. Every time, every topic: numerically, geometrically, and algebraically. Now, all contemporary authors of Calculus text would claim to be doing the same. But this way of approaching the subjects is here by design, as a very core characteristic of the text. The result is that you begin to look at the problems as something more than nuisances to be solved by rote learning (gone are the days students got to read Apostol at their very first iteration through Calculus...really learning, instead of having dumbed down explanations that, in fact, make learning *harder* - I wasn't one of the lucky ones...) Somehow the authors were very precise and sensitive in identifying "gotchas" in the student's very first iteration through multivariable calculus.
I discovered this book a bit too late in my Calculus 2 class. But this is a cheaper book than the ones that cost over $100. You should buy it, even as a supplement. Again, keep in mind this is not Advanced Calculus and neither was it meant to be.
And insofar as "mathematical rigor" is concerned _at this level_ it is the same - and IMHO even a little better - than some other very popular books.
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