Calculus and Its Applications

by Larry J. Goldstein, David C. Lay, David I. Schneider

Presents calculus in an intuitive yet intellectually satisfying way and illustrates its applications in the biological, social, and management sciences. A review chapter covers concepts needed to study calculus. Includes practice problems and worked examples, and exercises with answers. This ninth edition introduces delta notation early, and emphasizes analysis of data. It contains more material on regression, and an appendix on the graphing calculator. Chapter projects, also new to this edition, focus on critical thinking, verbal expression, and integration of mathematical techniques. Goldstein is affiliated with Goldstein Educational Technologies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Mathematics, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Science

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Larry Joel Goldstein

Reviews

[Weylin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book made up for an unskilled instructor. I wouldnt have learned a thing if it wasnt for this book. I spent 16 weeks with this book. I might as well add it to the READ collection

[Emma Bradford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Does this count as a book? Sure!

[Brianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fine. Nothing to write home about, but basically everything I know about calculus came from this book. The accompanying material in MyMathLab was super helpful and I really appreciated it. The book itself was less helpful than those problems, but it was good enough to make up for the strange circumstances of taking a math class during the pandemic.

[Jake Jeffries · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a Calculus textbook. Enough said.

[Owl]

Used the 12th edition for my college Calc class. A painful ride. Clear as mud. And that's coming from someone who's typically math savvy.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

It a good starting place for someone with no exposure to calculus and is looking for businesses application of calculus. I liked how similar example types (the cost/revenue questions at the end of the chapters) were carried through each chapter to see how different techniques and what they mean are applied. Most of the problems are very easy to solve and have little variation from the chapter sample problems which can be good or bad depending on your need. It means I skipped over many of the word problems as they were just the same exact problems with different scenarios so the application part is very narrow.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

After failing college calculus due to a brain injury, I retook an independent study course that used this as the text. I found it very useful for someone with some exposure to teach myself the calculus.