Calculus and Its Applications, Thirteenth Edition is a comprehensive, yet flexible, text for students majoring in business, economics, life science, or social sciences. The authors delve into greater mathematical depth than other texts while motivating students through relevant, up-to-date, applications drawn from students' major fields of study. The authors motivate key ideas geometrically and intuitively, providing a solid foundation for the more abstract treatments that follow. Every chapter includes a large quantity of exceptional exercises-a hallmark of this text--that address skills, applications, concepts, and technology. The Thirteenth Edition includes updated applications, exercises, and technology coverage. The authors have also added more study tools, including a prerequisite skills diagnostic test and a greatly improved end-of-chapter summary, and made content improvements based on user reviews.
KEY TOPICS: Functions; The Derivative; Applications of the Derivative; 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; Probability and Calculus
MARKET: For all readers interested in calculus and its applications.
- ISBN10 0321867297
- ISBN13 9780321867292
- Publish Date 1 February 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 December 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 13th edition
- Pages 736
- Language English