Single Variable Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals

by James Stewart

This book is for instructors who think that most calculus textbooks are too long. In writing the book, James Stewart asked What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? SINGLE VARIABLE ESSENTIAL EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Second Edition, offers a concise approach to teaching calculus that focuses on major concepts, and supports those concepts with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. The book is only 600 pages--less than half the size of Stewart's other calculus texts (CALCULUS, Seventh Edition and EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Seventh Edition) and yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity primarily by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the book's website, www.StewartCalculus.com. Despite the more compact size, the book has a modern flavor, covering technology and incorporating material to promote conceptual understanding, though not as prominently as in Stewart's other books. SINGLE VARIABLE ESSENTIAL EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS features the same attention to detail, eye for innovation, and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewart's textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics, Nonfiction, Reference, Science, Education, School

648 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 1995

About the author

James Stewart is a professor of mathematics and a violinist. He has written a number of textbooks, notably on calculus.

For other James Stewarts, see similar names.

Reviews

[Sarah Feng · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stewart’s logical motion from question to proof illuminates the central concepts of single variable calculus for a student who has had trouble grasping the motivation behind such proofs in the past. Especially appreciated, even central to my enjoyment, were his extensive and passionate inclusions of concepts, bridging Greek philosophy, physics, and many other applications both abstract and real. There is a certain poetry to this breakdown of the world through numbers, but I wonder if that’s just me fetishizing the language.

[Nathan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overpriced and poorly constructed, with pretty standard math textbook material on the inside.

[Nalani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bittersweet journey :)

[Ashley Chang · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is more of a review of calculus than a review of the book itself. Calculus is fine. This book so boring and mind numbing every time I wonder whether insomnia is a thing, I read. It's the epitome of life-not-changing.

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

A clear treatment of introductory calculus. Lots of examples throughout. I also found that the Early Calculus Transcendentals website had some very helpful resources.

[dead letter office · Rating 2 out of 5]

There must be a better way to do this.

[Glittery · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well written for a math textbook

[Marisa (Mirroredpages) · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only have one thing to say: I hate calculus and will never take it again.