| Calculus & Its Applications Contributor(s): Goldstein, Larry (Author), Lay, David (Author), Schneider, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 032184890X ISBN-13: 9780321848901 Publisher: Pearson OUR PRICE: $265.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Calculus |
| Dewey: 515 |
| LCCN: 2012021184 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 8.6" W x 10.9" (3.35 lbs) 672 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. KEY TOPICS: Functions; The Derivative; Applications of the Derivative; Techniques of Differentiation; The Exponential and Natural Logarithm Functions; Applications of the Exponential and Natural Logarithm Functions; The Definite Integral; Functions of Several Variables; The Trigonometric Functions; Techniques of Integration; Differential Equations; Taylor Polynomials and Infinite Series; Probability and Calculus MARKET: For all readers interested in calculus and its applications. |