Calculus - Hardcover

Anton, Howard; Bivens, Irl C.; Davis, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470647728 ISBN 13: 9780470647721

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Synopsis

The new edition of Calculus continues to bring together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team′s extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innovative problems put them in an unique position to make this new curriculum meaningful for those going into mathematics and those going into the sciences and engineering.    This new text exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including an emphasis on modeling and a flexible approach to technology.

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About the Author

Howard Anton obtained his B.A. from LehighUniversity, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470647728
• ISBN 13: 9780470647721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1312