Product Description

Once again keeping a keen ear to the needs of the evolving calculus community, Stewart created this text at the suggestion and with the collaboration of professors in the mathematics department at Texas A&M University. With an early introduction to vectors and vector functions, the approach is ideal for engineering students who use vectors early in their curriculum. Stewart begins by introducing vectors in Chapter 1, along with their basic operations, such as addition, scalar multiplication, and dot product. The definition of vector functions and parametric curves is given at the end of Chapter 1 using a two-dimensional trajectory of a projectile as motivation. Limits, derivatives, and integrals of vector functions are interwoven throughout the subsequent chapters. As with the other texts in his Calculus series, in Early Vectors Stewart makes us of heuristic examples to reveal calculus to students. His examples stand out because they are not just models for problem solving or a means of demonstrating techniques - they also encourage students to develop an analytic view of the subject. This heuristic or discovery approach in the examples give students an intuitive feeling for analysis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #548390 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1120 pages

About the Author
James Stewart received his M.S. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He did research at the University of London and was influenced by the famous mathematician George Polya at Stanford University. Stewart is currently Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University, and his research field is harmonic analysis. Stewart is the author of a best-selling calculus textbook series published by Cengage Learning—Brooks/Cole, including CALCULUS, CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, and CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, as well as a series of precalculus texts.

Customer Reviews

Adv Calculus
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Not sure how this book survives...
This is without a doubt the worst textbook I have ever owned. Okay, so it's calculus. It's a hard subject, and people do need to understand that; I know I do. However, this book goes to the unnecessary limits to ensure that anyone who is trying to learn calculus without the aide of a Mathematics Professor will surely fair, and waste countless hours trying to learn the notation that is used in the book, but never used in lecture or in the application courses (such as Engineering and Physics).

The language used in this book talks with a tone of "theory", and never speaks in "teacher". It's amazing how my professor can go over the material in class, and it'll make perfect sense; solving the problems are... not a problem. However, learning a section without the professor is simply a nightmare.

If you really want to learn vectors before learning the "actual calculus", I recommend purchasing an introductory physics text, and learning from there. Perhaps this is good book; if you eat, breathe and sleep theory talk. Otherwise, try to find another calculus book...

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