Calculus: Early Transcendentals

Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart's CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS texts are world-wide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Seventh Edition, Stewart conveys not only the utility of calculus to help you develop technical competence, but also gives you an appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of the subject. His patient examples and built-in learning aids will help you build your mathematical confidence and achieve your goals in the course.

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A textbook for a course introducing students both to the practical applications and to the beauty of the field. Stewert (McMaster U.) focuses on the basic concepts, and presents the topics geometrically, numerically, and algebraically. No dates are noted for the early editions, but the fourth contains new exercises, updated data, projects for individual or group work, and other pedagogical features. The CD-ROM offers a demonstration version of the Journey Through Calculus program, which is referred to at appropriate places in the text. A full array of auxiliary material, including instructors guide and laboratory manuals, are also available. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James Stewart received his M.S. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He did research at the University of London and was influenced by the famous mathematician George Polya at Stanford University. Stewart is currently Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University, and his research field is harmonic analysis. Stewart is the author of a best-selling calculus textbook series published by Cengage Learning-Brooks/Cole, including CALCULUS, CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, and CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, as well as a series of precalculus texts.