College Mathematics

Author: Xie Jijian
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The book presents content in a concise and clear manner, emphasizing intuitive descriptions and practical contexts, with moderate logical reasoning. The knowledge structure is relatively up-to-date and broad. It focuses on enhancing students' awareness and ability to use mathematics, introducing them to the basics of mathematical modeling. This book can serve as a textbook for agricultural universities, forestry universities, and medical universities. It is also suitable for majors in economics, management, social sciences, and other fields, as well as for self-study by readers with a high school education or higher. This book is a research outcome of the Ministry of Education's "Higher Education for the 21st Century and Curriculum System Reform Program" and is a curriculum textbook for the 21st century. The main contents of the book include: derivatives, differential methods, the application of derivatives, integration and its applications, differential calculus of multiple variables, double integrals, differential equations and difference equations, infinite series, and their applications in life sciences, economics, management, and social sciences. The appendix includes: integral tables, answers to exercises, and a glossary of terms.