Brief Calculus: An Applied Approach

Sullivan, Michael, III

ISBN 10: 0471707619 / ISBN 13: 9780471707615

Published by Wiley, 2012

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672 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Fair. Minor wear to cover corners. Small/faint stain spots and/or wrinkles to edges of some pages (barely noticeable), but all appear unmarked. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0016375

Bibliographic Details

Title: Brief Calculus: An Applied Approach

Publisher: Wiley

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hard cover

Edition: 8th Revised ed.

About this title

Synopsis:

Looking for a textbook to help you motivate your students? Sullivan's Brief Calculus: An Applied Approach 8/e continues its rich tradition of engaging students and demonstrating how mathematics applies to various fields of study. The text is packed with real data and real-life applications to business, economics, social and life sciences. The new Eighth Edition also features a new full color design and improved goal-oriented pedagogy to further help student understanding.

 

About the Author:

Michael Sullivan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Chicago State University where he taught for 35 years before retiring a few years ago. Dr. Sullivan is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the American Mathematical Association of Two year Colleges. he is President of the Text and Academic Authors Association and Represents that organization on the Authors Coalition of America. Mike has been writing textbooks in mathematics for over 30 years. He currently has 13 books in print: 3 texts with John Wiley & Sons and 10 with Prentice-Hall. Six of these titles are co-authored with his son, Michael Sullivan III.

Mike has four children: Kathleen, who teaches college mathematics; Michael, who teaches college mathematics, Dan, who is a Prentice-Hall sales representative , and Colleen, who teaches middle-School mathematics. Nine grandchildren round out the family.