Books : Calculus with Applications (8th Edition) (Lial/Greenwell/Ritchey Series)
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by: Margaret L. Lial, Raymond N. Greenwell, Nathan P. Ritchey
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780321228147
ISBN: 0321228146
Label: Addison Wesley
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 864
Publication Date: July 24, 2004
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Sales Rank: 301545
Studio: Addison Wesley
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Rating: - Incredibly Suprised.
This book was required for a course I took in real-number (non-trig) Calculus. Now, my philosophy about math, is that no teacher can teach you math. It's the only subject that you really MUST learn on your own. This book makes this work simple. The problems and examples are usually of similar difficulty and anyone with a good background in basic college algebra should be able to fly through this thing. It made me become unafraid of calculus enough that I bought more advanced texts and began ... Read More
Rating: - Calculus with Applications (8th Edition)
Having taught this material at the community college level for over 15 years, I find this to be one of the best texts we have used. As always, materials from a Lial book are easily understood. Futhermore, the authors have not lost contact with all rigor as in some math books intended for liberal arts usage. For example, the fact that a critical number can occur at an undefined value of the derivative, but only if the function itself is defined at that value, is fully explained.
Rating: - My friend and teacher.
Man, I have no idea where to begin. So let me start of by stating my mathematical background before I picked up this book. Before I picked up this book, I was fairly good with algebra but not very good at pre-calculus because all I knew about pre-calculus was that there are parabolas, but I knew very small trigonometry, statistics, series, and some other parts of pre-calculus. Anyway, so here I am in my last year of high school, a very terrible high school, with very small knowledge of mathematics, ... Read More
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