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Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals |  | Author: James Stewart
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 912
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0495014281
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
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Product Description
This book is a response to those instructors who feel that calculus textbooks are too big. In writing the book James Stewart asked himself:What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? Stewart's ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS offers a concise approach to teaching calculus, focusing on major concepts and supporting those with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS is only 850 pages-two-thirds the size of Stewart's other calculus texts (CALCULUS, Fifth Edition and CALCULUS, EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Fifth Edition)-yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity mainly by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the website www.StewartCalculus.com. Despite the reduced size of the book, there is still a modern flavor: Conceptual understanding and technology are not neglected, though they are not as prominent as in Stewart's other books. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS has been written with 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.
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 Calc. book a great deal June 4, 2010
Jessica Lemler (northern Indiana)
Seller had a great description. Item arrived as described in a very timely manner. Bundling the SSM with the text was a great thing and it's been really helpful for me!
i'm keeping this one August 28, 2010
C. A. Hooks
my first calc book was the Ron Larson book (ca 1999), and it's a bit more descriptive in examples here and there, but otherwise there's little difference in the approaches to teaching the material. some of the sections do choose terribly simple examples, but this is basically a condensed text. i got a lot of good knowledge from this book and now that i think about it, i'd rather use this one. hey, at least it's less weight to carry around (paperback intl edition ftw)
if you'd asked me in the middle of chapter 13, i might have had a different opinion. my advice is this: if you need this book for a class and you want some help, get the student solutions manual. this makes up for anything this text lacks... and you can leave it behind when you don't need it!
It was required October 12, 2008
C. Bates
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well the book was required so it worked great for that...
Since my professor explains the concepts rather well in class I do not need to learn anything from the book, so the conciseness is a benefit since I do not need to look through a lot of extra information for a concept I might have missed or forgotten from class.
ECET March 8, 2009
Cesar Garcia-garcia (CA USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This product was awesome when i received it. thanks. And the price was awesome too for it.
Pretty Decent. May 17, 2007
Patrick (Mass, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you'll notice above, the description states it is a book meant to be as concise as possible, which I believe the author definitely achieved. However, this drive to be as small as possible without lacking 'essential' topics is cheating to the beginning calculus student. Concepts should be thoroughly explained and end of chapter questions should match or slightly exceed the level of difficulty of the explained concepts in the chapter - not heavily exceed it, this is where I took off a star. I understand that the goal of end of chapter questions is to challenge the student, but the lack of thorough explanations in an effort to be as concise as possible does not prepare the student for these questions, in my opinion. Therefore, I had to seek out other materials.
In the end, I found this book to laid out very well and amazingly, for a math book, somewhat easy to read. I supplemented this book with the Idiots Guide to Calculus, which was a life saver on certain topics and went even further with Stewart's Solution Manual for this book. The purchasing of these two additional books, I hope, may be an indicator of the lack of thoroughness for achieving as small a book as possible.
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