University Calculus, Early Transcendentals [with MyMathLab/MyStatLab Access Code]

by Joel R. Hass, Maurice D. Weir, George B. Thomas Jr.

Books a la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book. University Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Second Edition is the ideal choice for professors who want a streamlined text with plenty of exercises. This text helps students successfully generalize and apply the key ideas of calculus through clear and precise explanations, thoughtfully chosen examples, and superior exercise sets. This text offers the right mix of basic, conceptual, and challenging exercises, along with meaningful applications. This significant revision features more examples, more mid-level exercises, more figures, improved conceptual flow, and the best in technology for learning and teaching. The text is available with a robust MyMathLab(R) course--an online homework, tutorial, and study solution designed for today's students. In addition to interactive multimedia features like Java(TM) applets and animations, thousands of MathXL(R) exercises that reflect the richness of those in the text are available for students. This Package Contains: UNIVERSITY CALCULUS, EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, 2e, (a la Carte edition) with MyMathLab/MyStatLab Student Access Kit

Genres: Textbooks

916 pages, Unbound

First published February 24, 2008

Reviews

[Jesse Santangelo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't taken a look at other calculus textbooks but I liked this one. It was clear enough that if I didn't understand something during the lecture, I could look it up in the book and I didn't have to strain my brain too hard to understand it. Everything is neatly organized, there are a lot of pictures to help you visualize, but not too many. I had to read a certain physics textbook recently and I was constantly trying to figure out what was going on in the pictures, or if the picture was even relevant to the topic I was currently on. This is not that book, the pictures are not excessive or confusing.

The only problem I had with the book was that after the 8th chapter (where calculus 3 at my school starts) the order gets a little weird. Reading in order will probably work fine but my professor chose to teach completely out of order - we went through the first few sections of each chapter first, to get all the basics done at once, and then we went into more complicated things, out of order again. I'm not quite sure what order we went in, but it made sense to me, and looking at how I would have learned things if I had gone in order, I'm glad I did it that way.

[Tallarico · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hate Calculus. This book is ok, I guess.