Calculus (5th Edition, Volume 1) (Photo-reproduction Edition)

Author: James Stewart
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Publish Date: 2004-07-10
Features: This book is one of the outstanding mathematics textbooks series published overseas, introduced from Thomson Learning. The textbook was globally distributed about 400,000 copies in 2003, capturing 50%–60% of the calculus textbook market in the United States, with users including prestigious institutions like Yale University and over 600 general colleges. After years of teaching practice, the content is thorough and accurate, with each important topic presented verbally, algebraically, numerically, and visually. The author and his assistants spent three years searching for teaching examples in various media that best reflect the application of calculus and incorporated them into the textbook. As a result, the examples and exercises are closely related to real-life situations, fully engaging students' interest in learning. Additionally, the book features simple, fluent, and highly readable language, making it particularly suitable for students from non-English-speaking countries. It is worth mentioning that the book makes effective use of technology. Accompanying the book are two CD-ROMs: one titled "Experience Calculus," which provides an experimental environment like a silent teacher, guiding students step-by-step to analyze and solve problems through exploratory and discovery-based methods, and can also link to the learning website WWW.stewartcalculus.com. The other is titled "Interactive Calculus," which includes videos and audio related to calculus teaching. This book is suitable for bilingual teaching in engineering majors and undergraduate/graduate students from a wide range of non-mathematics disciplines (including humanities, economics, and management) in domestic universities and colleges.