Calculus with Analytic Geometry

by Howard Anton

This is the most widely used calculus text in the U.S., with a reputation for its clear, well-written coverage of concepts. This new edition combines the clear exposition of earlier editions and incorporates improvements in coverage and pedagogy to create a lively, more accessible approach. Informal paraphrasing supplements formal proofs, and the text offers biographical sketches, historical notes, and references to recent literature. New material includes additional exercises in each chapter which meet the needs of science, engineering, and math majors. There is a new chapter on differential equations and there has been substantial reorganization of the material on functions, limits, differentiation, integration, applications of the definite integral, and multivariate calculus.

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

820 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.