Calculus: Graphical Numerical Algebraic (Hardcover)

by Ross L. Finney (Author), Franklin Demana (Author), Bert K. Waits (Author), Daniel Kennedy (Author)

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This text uses a three-fold approach to teaching calculus - graphical, numerical and algebraic - to explore problem situations. This approach helps students better understand, and in turn better apply, the fundamentals of calculus. The authors' graphing calculator and computer graphing approach to algebra and trigonometry allows students to visualize for themselves tough mathematical concepts. This, combined with the solid calculus instruction of Finney and Thomas, gives students the solid maths coverage they need and the technology they value. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Hardcover
• Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; 3 edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130631310
• ISBN-13: 978-0130631312
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,180 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Recommed This Book With Reservation, August 3, 1999

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This review is from: Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic - Single Variable Version (Hardcover)

As all of you know already, all (except some exceptional textbooks by distinguished authors) Addison Weslely Mathematics books are well known for their terrible excercizes, explanations, lessons, and their contents. There are a few reasons why the above statement is true, but you can figure them out by yourself. Also, lack of information that hinders AP Calculus B C students further emphasize that this is a book made for the novice mathematicians of extremely low ability in problem solving and thinking. Overall, this book is not a book that can be used in an Advanced Placement Calculus BC class; and indeed, this book would a terrible choice for a short calcululus class at a university that offers a good quality mathematics education. This book definiately receives a "poor" recommendation; its contents must be enhanced for it to receive a better recommendation from the instructors and learners in the United States.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average book, January 6, 1999

By	[e-mail] (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Calculus: Graphical Numerical Algebraic (Hardcover)

In my opinion, I think this is a very average calculus textbook. It lacks proofs for many theorems and puts too much emphasis on the graphing calculator and other computer technologies in both chapters and problems (what do you expect from some egghead in MIT?) On the other hand, all the information is organized nicely and everything seems accurate for a first edition. But I have seen better. In my personal opinion, Salas & Hille's Calculus is a better book.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars the epitome of mediocrity, March 11, 2000

By	A. Diccion (Illinois) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Calculus: Graphical Numerical Algebraic (Hardcover)

This book is very poor. I give it a poor rating because the solution manuals that compliment this book are very mediocre. The solution manual that came with the book (It came bundled with the text at my college bookstore) seems as though it was hastily put together. Some answers are wrong, have typos, or even lacking altogether. The solution manual only covers chapters 1-12. The remaining chapters are covered in another manual...that's where the above problems are thrown into plain view. In the second solution manual, some answers don't match, are missing, or wrong. For example, chapter 13 has two sections that are flipped around, which shows the haste in bringing out this book. I have nothing good to say about these texts. When Calculus 3 is over this semester, I have 660+ pages worth of TP...that's the only way I feel the purchased can be justified.