Calculus and Mathematical Models, Volume 1

Author: Jia Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: This book has the following features:
1. Emphasizes "reasoning," i.e., strengthens the intuitive explanation of mathematical principles.
2. Highlights approximate formulas and approximate calculations.
3. Appropriately adds economic applications of calculus.
This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students in general universities and is suitable for various engineering majors. It won the Second Prize of the 2002 National Excellent Teaching Materials Award for Higher Education in China.
The book is published in two volumes. The first volume includes: Functions, Elementary Models, Limits and Continuity of Functions, Derivatives and Differentials, Mean Value Theorems and Using Derivatives to Study the Nature of Functions, Integration, Integration Models and Applications, Function Approximation and Infinite Series, and Appendices I (Common Plane Curves and Their Equations) and II (Integral Tables).
The answers and hints to the exercises are provided at the end of the book.