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by: Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Douglas Quinney, Karen Rhea, Jeff Tecosky-Feldman, Thomas W. Tucker, Otto K. Bretscher, Sheldon P. Gordon, Eric Connally
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780471681212
ISBN: 0471681210
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 15260
Studio: Wiley
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APPLIED CALCULUS, 3/E brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula to meet the needs of today's students. The author team's extensive teaching experience and proven ability to write innovative and relevant problems has made this text a true bestseller. Exciting new real-world applications make this new edition even more meaningful to students in management, life and social sciences. This book will work well for those departments seeking a middle ground for their instructors.
APPLIED CALCULUS, 3/E exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the 'Rule of Four', an emphasis on concepts and 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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Rating:  - Excellent Choice for the Non-Math Student
This is a magnificant calculus book. It is aimed at students in business, the social sciences, and the life sciences. This is done by first the examples and problems. But perhaps even more important the wording of the text is such that these students will understand what they are trying to convey and to clearly show them how calculus can be used to solve problems in their particular field.
At the beginning of the book, three pages of the Preface, the applications discussed in the text ... Read More
Rating:  - Harvard
Sorry to bother you with this review. The authors of this book are distinguished professors at Harvard University (a fine school, no matter what anyone says). Professor Gleason, in particular, is a mathematician of world-historical importance. In a sense, taking lectures from Gleason is not worse than having a lecture from Laplace or Poincare or any of the other great lights of mathematics. I confess that I haven't seen the book or held it between my hands, but I couldn't just leave it here with ... Read More
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