University Calculus Elements with Early Transcendentals

by Joel R. Hass

KEY BENEFIT The popular and respected Thomas' Calculus Series has been expanded to include a concise alternative. University Elements is the ideal text for instructors who prefer the flexibility of a text that is streamlined without compromising the necessary coverage for a typical three-semester course. As with all of Thomas' texts, this book delivers the highest quality writing, trusted exercises, and an exceptional art program. Providing the shortest, lightest, and least-expensive early transcendentals presentation of calculus, University Elements is the text that students will carry and use! KEY TOPICS Functions and Limits; Differentiation; Applications of Derivatives; Integration; Techniques of Integration; Applications of Definite Integrals; Infinite Sequences and Series; Polar Coordinates and Conics; Vectors and the Geometry of Space; Vector-Valued Functions and Motion in Space; Partial Derivatives; Multiple Integrals; Integration in Vector Fields. MARKET for all readers interested in calculus.

Genres: Textbooks

Unknown Binding

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.