Applied Calculus

by Hughes-Hallett, Deborah; Lock, Patti Frazer; Gleason, Andrew M.; Flath, Daniel E.; Lovelock, David

• ISBN13: 9781118174920
• ISBN10: 1118174925
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-04
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

Applied Calculus 5th Edition is praised for the creative and varied conceptual and modeling problems which motivate and challenge students.  The 5^th Edition of this market leading text 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. Updated data and fresh applications throughout the book are designed to build student confidence with basic concepts and to reinforce skills. As in the previous edition, a Pre-test is included for students whose skills may need a refresher prior to taking the course.

Author Biography

Dr. Deborah Hughes-Hallett is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.?She is regularly consulted on the design of curricula and pedagogy for undergraduate mathematics at the national and international level and she is an author of several college level mathematics texts. She has co-authored a report for the National Academy of Science's Committee on Advanced Study in American High Schools, and is a member of the MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns and the College Board's Committee to review the new Math-SAT. In 1998 and 2002 she was co-chair of International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics in Greece, attended by several hundred faculty from about 50 countries. In 2006, she chaired the third conference in this sequence in Istanbul, Turkey. She established programs for master's students at the Kennedy School of Government, precalculus, and quantitative reasoning courses (with Andy Gleason), and courses for economics majors.

Table of Contents

1. Functions and Change

2. Rate of Change: The Derivative

3. Short-Cuts to Differentiation.

4. Using the Derivative

5. Accumulated Change: The Definite Integral

6. Using the Definite Integral

7. Antiderivatives

8. Probability

9. Functions of Several Variables

10. Mathematical Modeling using Differential Equations

11. Geometric Series