Calculus With Analytic Geometry

by George F. Simmons

Written by acclaimed author and mathematician George Simmons, this revision is designed for the calculus course offered in two and four year colleges and universities. It takes an intuitive approach to calculus and focuses on the application of methods to real-world problems. Throughout the text, calculus is treated as a problem solving science of immense capability.

Genres: Mathematics, Calculus, Textbooks, Science, Stem

887 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

George Simmons was an American mathematician who worked in topology and classical analysis. He was known as the author of widely used textbooks on university mathematics.

Reviews

[Satyaki]

Tough concepts explained in a really intuitive manner.
MIT OCW single variable calculus
MIT OCW multivariable calculus
MIT OCW highlights of calculus
Essence of calculus

[Pablo Rodríguez]

This book made me start loving maths.

[Gabriel Ferreira]

Best calculus textbook I have used for study (I also used Thomas' and Guidorizzi's).

[Arun]

Not planning to read this ~1000 page tome cover to cover but it was supposed to be the recommended
text for MIT's single variable calculus class. From perusing ToC and sample chapters it seem to be didactically sound and well written though too chatty for my taste. Planning to refer to this mainly on the topic of finding the volumes of geometric shapes like cylinder, shell (via rotation around x, y axis) and length of curves using integration. Serge lang's book "First course in calculus" is an alternate book on this topic but it didn't cover it in much detail.

[Ritesh Patel]

Reading this book feels like a conversation and the historical comments are a great addition as they provide the context on when and why making it so enjoyable as to you feel like you walk through the people who came up with the theories.