Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Brief Edition introduces calculus in real-world contexts and provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, the life sciences, and the social sciences. The new Ninth Edition builds on the straightforward writing style, practical applications from a variety of disciplines, clear step-by-step problem solving techniques, and comprehensive exercise sets that have been hallmarks of Hoffmann/Bradley s success through the years.
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not so brief,
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This review is from: Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Brief Edition (Hardcover)
The title says Brief Edition, but the book still weighs in at over 750 pages. Not so brief. Calculus is calculus. However, the book is replete with examples drawn from business, economics and the social sciences. Meant to motivate readers majoring in those fields, and who have found that they need to learn calculus.
The examples are good for that reason. Motivation and relevance are key to learning calculus. Especially if many readers might not have garnered any especial aptitude for maths during their earlier schooling. Lest some of you get offended, let me point out that students who are strong in maths during primary and high school often tilt towards majoring in maths, the physical sciences or engineering in university. For them, motivation in learning maths was rarely a problem. But for others, a book like this can be useful.
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Inexcusable,
This review is from: Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Brief Edition (Hardcover)
This is easily one of the worst textbooks I've ever read, which makes my current class of calculus infinitely more difficult as a result. I've never taken calculus before, but I've enjoyed other math classes due to the easy, accessible texts and a good teacher to complement them. The book is simply not user-friendly to anyone outside of those who have taken calculus in some form beforehand, or even those who have.
The chapter examples are predominantly where most of the action goes down, and the authors often use simple examples (never mind giving explanations on how they solved the problem, often my classmates and I had to take too much time to diagnose what the author did from one step to the next due to a lack of a step-by-step process), and not only that, but they save the easy stuff for themselves to explain away and save the headachers that need explaining for the reader! Even my professor from time to time had to take too much classtime to try and reason out the author's muddled intentions rather than teaching the planned lesson. In short, this was an easy paycheck to some of the laziest group of Ph.Ds I'll ever see.
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Practical Calculus,
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This review is from: Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Brief Edition (Hardcover)
Having returned to school for another degree, I was forced to take yet another calculus class or write a paper about calculus so, I figured a little review never hurt and I'd get a good grade.
I have decided that out of all of the calculus, differential equations, etc., that I took in college getting that engineering degree, I like this book the best. Good examples of practical applications for economics and social sciences without a lot of "prove thats..." My only beef would be for first time calculus students who are weak in algebra as some of the problems lack examples within the text.
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