Developed in response to the calculus reform movement, this problem-driven book features exceptional exercises directed toward those in management, life and social sciences.
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Student Solutions Manual and Student Answer Manual available. -- The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
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Developed in response to the calculus reform movement, this problem-driven book features exceptional exercises directed toward those in management, life and social sciences. Functions are presented graphically, numerically and algebraically to give readers the benefit of alternate interpretations. Technology is encouraged and used to help readers think mathematically.
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Choice for the Non-Math Student,
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This review is from: Applied Calculus (Paperback)
This is a magnificant calculus book. It is aimed at students in business, the social sciences, and the life sciences. This is done by first the examples and problems. But perhaps even more important the wording of the text is such that these students will understand what they are trying to convey and to clearly show them how calculus can be used to solve problems in their particular field.At the beginning of the book, three pages of the Preface, the applications discussed in the text are listed by: Business and Economics, Life Sciences and Ecology, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences. Under these headings are subjects like: Value of a Car, AIDS, Cancer Rates, Abortion Rate and so on. These are subjects that will have some interest and applicability to students rather than the old traditional problems like water flowing into and out of a bucket that used to be the mainstream of teaching calculus. Finally, calculus marks a transition in the study of mathematics for a student. Up until now he studied arithmetic every year in school, maybe he finally got to a bit of algebra and trig. Now he is exposed to a whole new world of ways to handle problems that go beyond anything he has seen before. This book eases the student into an understanding of how to approach these problems better than any I've seen.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Textbook,
This review is from: Applied Calculus (Paperback)
This textbook is good, but not great--unless you have an instructor who will interpret the calculus-based applications and problems in the book. Nonetheless, not bad.
14 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Teach yourself Calculus,
By "albanir-sf" (Manaus-AM-Brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Applied Calculus for Business, Life, and Social Sciences (Paperback)
This book is addressed for understanding of the Calculus and not for the traditional teaching that sins for the excess of formalism. It is an excellent book for who wants to understand and to learn Calculus through the application of problems of the Real World. The book also motivates the use of graphic calculators to have a better vision of the problem.
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Functions are truly fundamental to mathematics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
annual percent growth rate, drug concentration curve, maximum potential sales, robin population, effective annual yield, total gains from trade, continuous growth rate, pounded continuously, minimum required payment, slope field, contour diagram, concavity changes, million worms, interpret your answers, finite geometric series, vertical intercept, light rectangles, stabilization point, continuous rate, local max, inside function, global maxima, minimum effective concentration, give units, second derivative test Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Solution Figure, Great Lakes, John Wiley, Solution Using, Soviet Union, Vital Signs, West Germany, Worldwatch Institute, Adis Press, Behavioural Ecology, Big Tree, Cambridge University Press, Drug Metabolism, Fitting Formulas, International Falls, Lottery Commission, Scientific American, Species Diversity, Antimicrobial Drugs, Central Nervous System, Edgar Springs, Hong Kong, Pharmacokinetics of Cardiovascular New!
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- Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (Pt. 1) by James D. Murray on page 432, page 433, and page 434
- PROGRESS IN DRUG METAB V11 (Progress in Drug Metabolism) by Gibson on page 225, page 226, and page 227
- Calculus: The Analysis of Functions by Peter D. Taylor on page 133, page 190, and page 296
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