Calculus and Analytic Geometry [Hardcover]

George Brinton Thomas (Author), Ross L. Finney (Author)

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• Hardcover: 1098 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; 8 Sub edition (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201529297
• ISBN-13: 978-0201529296
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,367,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps The Finest Academic Accomplishment of the 20th Century, January 3, 2008

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To easily make myself understood in the most important of technical and scientific circles, I have so far found two scenarios that work. One is first thinking through a concept on an emotional, gut, intuitive level (body as vector, particle, motion, mass, or what not) and then just sharing with the APPROPRIATE, well-behaved AUDIENCE. The other approach is to prepare a massive amount of simple, yet accurate terminology and then make brief, accurate statements to the APPROPRIATE, well-behaved AUDIENCE. For either situation where such scientific explanation is needed, this book has proven itself again and again.

Whether I'm imagining myself traveling along a three dimensional surface or learning exactly how the words "rise" and "run" can be used in relation to the concept of a derivative, this book makes it easy to look up concepts by index or table of contents and then review, refresh, and better understand the terminology and symbols.

Of all the required course materials purchased during my 6 year pursuit of a bachelor's and master's, out of the 5-6 thousand dollars spent, this book has proven itself the most worthy, above all others. In comparison, the rest of the required course materials come off as part of some sort elaborate book-store, department, publisher money-making kick-back scheme. With only a few exceptions.

Bottom Line: For learning about functions of one or more variables including calculus vector analysis, this is THE one-stop shopping experience. The selection and presentation topics are its best features. (If a little more depth in problem solving is truly needed, just pick up one of the great Schuam's like the one on Vector Analysis.)