Calculus: Concepts and Contexts

by James Stewart

Book Overview

Offering a more robust WebAssign course, Stewart's CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, Enhanced Edition, 4th Edition, helps you learn the major concepts of calculus using precise definitions, patient... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534409865
• ISBN13: 9780534409869
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
• Length: 978 Pages
• Weight: 4.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.2" x 10.2"

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multimedia learning

Stewart offers the reader a multimedia approach to learning calculus. The book's text is well written and illustrated. But given that there have been texts on this material for centuries, it is hard for any author to add much that is new in either the material or how it is presented. One difference from texts before 1980 or so is that the figures here are far more colourful. When I learnt calculus in the 70s, figures were sparse and usually black and white. Yet I and my peers learnt the concepts. Current readers have it much easier. This is amplified by the CD that accompanies the book. In it, the animations might be the most distinguishing feature. They give more depth to the book, when discussing the difficult or subtler aspects of the calculus. Chances are, the top students won't need all this on the CD, or even any of it. Rather, its effect may be best on the average or lesser students, by given them more toeholds on the subject.

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good book in overall content. Lacks really detailed examples when you get stuck. Notation is simple enough, but text itself does not always follow suite.