Calculus with Analytic Geometry

by Howard Anton, Albert Herr

Continues the outstanding tradition of earlier volumes with attention to detail, well-written explanations and a lively, accessible approach to learning. The size of this edition has been substantially reduced by rewriting major portions of the material for more efficient exposition and effective use of space. New material has been added on parametric representations of surfaces, Jacobians and Kepler's laws. Also includes new reference matter on complex numbers as well as biographies and historical notes which capture the personalities of the great mathematicians.

Genres: Mathematics, Calculus, Textbooks, Science, Nonfiction, Reference, Academic

800 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1980

About the author

Howard Anton obtained his B.A. from Lehigh University, his M.A. from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn, all in mathematics. In the early 1960's he worked for Burroughs Corporation and Avco Corporation at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where he was involved with the manned space program. In 1968 he joined the Mathematics Department at Drexel University, where he taught full time until 1983. Since that time he has been an adjunct professor at Drexel and has devoted the majority of his time to textbook writing and activities for mathematical associations. Dr. Anton was president of the EPADEL Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Served on the board of Governors of that organization, and guided the creation of the Student Chapters of the MAA. He has published numerous research papers in functional analysis, approximation theory, and topology, as well as pedagogical papers. He is best known for his textbooks in mathematics, which are among the most widely used in the world. There are currently more than one hundred versions of his books, including translations into Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and German. For relaxation, Dr. Anton enjoys traveling and photography.

Reviews

[Tag Riggs]

It's got to be decades ago but this is an excellent text that describe in detail deferential, integral, and multivariable calculus.

[Farzana Saher]

good

[Fatoni Muhammad]

cool

[Saif Hashmi]

good work

[Afaq Malik]

Nice book

[Thomas Schulte]

I used the Howard Anton series as an undergraduate and recall it fondly. Still have it on my shelf....

[Mohamed Ahmed Aboushama]

God places you.
The book is fall of love I mean it.
This book is the main reason I did love the geometry.

[Hamad]

best one

[Steve Stuart]

A thorough and comprehensive introduction to calculus (differential, integral, and multivariate), suitable for 3 semesters at the college freshman/sophomore level. There are plenty of end-of-chapter homework problems, with answers to odd problems in the back, so it can be used not only for a course text, but also for individual study.

The discussion is clear and logical, and fairly rigorous.

The two-color printing is less flashy than many modern books. But the main disadvantage of an edition this old (1980) compared to a more modern text is that it makes no mention of the graphing calculators or symbolic math programs that all college students have access to.

[Mike]

I have the 2nd edition. I do not find Anton's books very good. When I was taking calculus I may have looked at the examples in the book, but never found myself doing any of the problems for extra practice. Now that I'm done with calculus I still feel no desire to use this book for reference or to brush up on things. This is generally the last book I'll consult if I'm looking for an answer to a problem. It's an average to less than average book.

[Michelle]

One of the pleasures of reading older edition textbooks is enjoying excellent matte paper, which is easier to use under fluorescent lighting or near the end of a long day of reading. For those students or instructors with colour blindness or vision perception issues, the minimal reliance on colour in the book means these readers can access all the content of the text.

[Taimoor_1st]

I like this Book. coz its my book

[Benjamin Plume]

This was the text I had in high school, and I thought it was better than the one I ended up with in college.

[Nadir Shahzad]

its nice edition by Anton

[Muhammad Bilal]

only read

[Saadiya]

I want to read

[عبد الرضا]

thanks

[Rj Mohsin]

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[M Hanif]

calculus

[Umi Raw]

good