Brief Calculus and Its Applications

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

Present innovative ways for applying calculus to real-world situations in the business, economics, life science, and social science disciplines. Pairs substantial amounts of graphical analysis and informal geometric proofs with an abundance of hands-on exercises. Coverage includes the derivative and its applications; techniques of differentiation; the exponential and natural logarithm functions; applications of the exponential and natural logarithm; functions; the definite integral; functions of several variables; the trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; differential equations; taylor polynomials and infinite series; and probability and calculus.

520 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Larry Joel Goldstein