Calculus and Mathematical Models (Volume 1)

Author: Jia Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book has the following features:
1. Emphasizes "reasoning," i.e., strengthening 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 National Outstanding College Textbook Award in 2002. 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 behavior of functions, integrals, integral 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 exercises are provided at the end of the book.