Calculus With Analytic Geometry, Seventh Edition [Hardcover]

Ron Larson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0618239723 | ISBN-13: 978-0618239726 | Publication Date: January 17, 2002 | Edition: 7

Designed for the three-semester course for math and science majors, the Larson/Hostetler/Edwards series continues its tradition of success by being the first to offer both an Early Transcendental version as well as a new Calculus with Precalculus text. This was also the first calculus text to use computer-generated graphics (Third Edition), to include exercises involving the use of computers and graphing calculators (Fourth Edition), to be available in an interactive CD-ROM format (Fifth Edition), and to be offered as a complete, online calculus course (Sixth Edition). Every edition of the book has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas. The Seventh Edition also expands its support package with an all-new set of text-specific videos.

• P.S. Problem-Solving Sections, an additional set of thought-provoking exercises added to the end of each chapter, require students to use a variety of problem-solving skills and provide a challenging arena for students to work with calculus concepts.
• Getting at the Concept Exercises added to each section exercise set check students' understanding of the basic concepts. Located midway through the exercise set, they are both boxed and titled for easy reference.
• Review Exercises at the end of each chapter have been reorganized to provide students with a more effective study tool. The exercises are now grouped and correlated by text section, enabling students to target concepts requiring review.
• The icon "IC" in the text identifies examples that appear in the Interactive Calculus 3.0 CD-ROM and Internet Calculus 2.0 web site with enhanced opportunities for exploration and visualization using the program itself and/or a Computer Algebra System.
• Think About It conceptual exercises require students to use their critical-thinking skills and help them develop an intuitive understanding of the underlying theory of the calculus.
• Modeling Data multi-part questions ask students to find and interpret mathematical models to fit real-life data, often through the use of a graphing utility.
• Section Projects, extended applications that appear at the end of selected exercise sets. may be used for individual, collaborative, or peer-assisted assignments.
• True or False? Exercises, included toward the end of many exercises sets, help students understand the logical structure of calculus and highlight concepts, common errors, and the correct statements of definitions and theorems.
• Motivating the Chapter sections opening each chapter present data-driven applications that explore the concepts to be covered in the context of a real-world setting.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1091 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; 7 edition (January 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618239723
• ISBN-13: 978-0618239726
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book for a self learner, June 16, 2002

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Sa Chen (Ossining, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calculus With Analytic Geometry, Seventh Edition (Hardcover)

Initially I did not like this book because I felt it was a bit too wordy. But then the wordiness is very helpful for a self learner. The examples and exercises are good too.The pace is neither too fast nor too slow. And it offers interesting websites articles for further studies. The graphs, pictures and colors are the best among all math books.
The only thing, but I can live with it, I did not like it is that the book is very heavy. Well, it really worths the money.
I hope more math books can be written and published so nicely. Studying math should not be just formulars and symbols. Colors and pictures are not just for high school, they should be there for serious math students and mathematicians too.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the Best!, December 28, 2000

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This review is from: Calculus With Analytic Geometry (Hardcover)

I can honestly say that this is the best textbook I have ever used in any subject whatsoever. I do not say this out of a love for Calculus, but out of an appreciation for how pedagogically sound this text is. All authors should strive for such clarity.

As stated, there is no text, in my opinion, more suited towards use in any introductory Calculus series, but this text is also ideal for self-study. The theory is presented in crystal clear fashion, and then multiple examples are given in order of increasing complexity. Each chapter culminates with a series of well-chosen problems and odd-numbered problems have answers in the back. For self-study, the latter detail is of most importance, yet it doesn't end there! A companion guide is also available (by Heyd) that works out, in detail, many of the odd-numbered problems.

The figures within the text are chosen well, so that they demonstrate the matter at hand. It is *NOT* the case that there are pictures just for the sake of pictures.

Short biographical sketches of important mathematicians who developed parts of the calculus are included in the relevant chapters, which I found interesting to read even though it certainly was not assigned reading! "Career Interview(s)" in which a person who has a career in applied mathematics gives a brief description of what they do are also included at the end of many chapters.

I have found the overall setup of the book exceptional in the order in which the chapters are presented and in the location of a multitude of important theorems and formulas that are in the front and back covers.

I should also mention that at the end of many of the chapters, a reference is made to a journal article or two "for further reading". I found these excellent, as our library subscribed to these journals and they were indeed well-suited for anyone to read who had just completed the chapter at hand. These articles always had very interesting applications or simply inventive pure mathematics as their topics. As a student, I am lucky to have taken the initiative to even follow Larson's advice and look into one of these articles. I would urge anyone teaching from this book to perhaps assign some of those articles as out of class reading or talk about them in class if time permits.

I used this text for my series of three four credit courses, Calculus I, II, and III, and I think that adopting this text to use in that series of courses was the best thing the Mathematics Department at my school has done. Do not be fooled into thinking this is a book that would be of little interest to junior-senior undergrads and 1st-2nd year graduates. I was amazed when I found out infinite series and vector analysis is sometimes considered "advanced" calculus, even though it is presented here with such clarity that it seems far from advanced. Cheers for Larson! (I refer to the fifth edition above)

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, readable yet mathematically intensive text., May 30, 1998

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Michael Kelley (Prince Frederick, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Calculus With Analytic Geometry (Hardcover)

I have used this text teaching Calc I & II in high school and community college ... I would recommend no other text.