Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition

By Robin J. Gottlieb

A major complaint of lecturers teaching calculus is that students don't have the appropriate background to work through the calculus course successfully. This text is targeted directly at this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201709295
• ISBN13: 9780201709292
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

My Calculus Textbook: A Necessary Evil

Buying this book was easy and great! Reading it and working through it.... not so much. Being a student here at Harvard, I know Robin Gottlieb personally and I can really see her persona come through in her textbook. Many of the key concepts and theorems and problems are written in a sort of prose form, which gives the textbook the unique characteristic of reading like a novel. I still don't know if I like this approach. Also, I feel like the material is extremely watered-down and we're being taught on a 7th grade level, but that's probably just my class, regardless of the textbook we use. The book itself is pretty heavy, thick, & substantial. And yes, even here at Harvard I will get laughed at for lugging around this huge chunk of text.

Robin Gottlieb is a woman.

I have not read the book (although I have heard good things about the class.)However I wanted to correct an error in the review -- Robin Gottlieb is a she, not a he.