Calculus and Its Applications

by Scott A. Surgent, Marvin L. Bittinger, David J. Ellenbogen, et al.

Book Overview

Calculus and Its Applications, Tenth Edition , remains a best-selling text because of its accessible presentation that anticipates student needs. The writing style is ideal for today's readers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321694333
• ISBN13: 9780321694331
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 620 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Ship Fast! Nice book.

I received it 2 days after seller shipped. All the pages are in very good condition. Covers are not bad. Really a nice book and nice price!

Great book :)

The book was in excellent quality and much cheaper than any bookstore offered it for.

A Readable Calculus Text

I teach a high school Calculus class for kids who are capable/competent mathematicians, but not really interested in the AP level at an independent school. We like Marv Bittinger's books because they provide a nice balance of applications and connections without losing sight of the math. We continue to use this out-of-date book because it is more readable than most Calculus texts and strikes a nice balance between the rigor of the math and applications that help students to feel a connection to the ideas. The organization of the material is pretty good, although I often salt in the introduction of simple trigonometric functions throughout my instruction, rather than waiting until the end of the course, where it appears in the book. We have found that our students have a lot of fun with the problems about exponential growth and decay, particularly the application of the laws of cooling in solving murders. It seems a little odd to nearly finish differentiation before exploring logarithms and then have to go back and consider derivatives again, but I have gotten used to that. Overall, I like the depth at which this book seeks to travel and the problems and explanations.

pretty good

it's what I ordered, except it mentioned that it included software, which was misleading because that particular software can be used only once. Besides that, very good.

Very good for a beginner taking calculus

Its examples and explanations are very good. It contains the essentials of Calculus and good applications in many fields, e.g. biology, economics, etc.