Multivariable Calculus with Matrices (6th Edition) [Paperback]

C. Henry Edwards (Author), David E. Penney (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0130648183 | ISBN-13: 978-0130648181 | Publication Date: February 1, 2002 | Edition: 6

This is the most extensively visual book in the market—highlighted by hundreds of Mathematica and MATLAB generated figures throughout. It now contains a full chapter of material on matrices and eigenvalues up front. All of Multivariable Calculus has been rewritten with matrix notation. Chapter topics include infinite series, vectors and matrices, curves and surfaces in space, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, and vector calculus.

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This is the most extensively visual book in the market—highlighted by hundreds of Mathematica and MATLAB generated figures throughout. It now contains a full chapter of material on matrices and eigenvalues up front. All of Multivariable Calculus has been rewritten with matrix notation. Chapter topics include infinite series, vectors and matrices, curves and surfaces in space, partial differentiation, multiple integrals, and vector calculus.

About the Author

C. Henry Edwards is emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in 1960, and recently retired after 40 years of classroom teaching (including calculus or differential equations almost every term) at the universities of Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Georgia, with a brief interlude at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the University of Georgia's honoratus medal in 1983 (for sustained excellence in honors teaching), its Josiah Meigs award in 1991 (the institution's highest award for teaching), and the 1997 state-wide Georgia Regents award for research university faculty teaching excellence. His scholarly career has ranged from research and dissertation direction in topology to the history of mathematics to computing and technology in the teaching and applications of mathematics. In addition to being author or co-author of calculus, advanced calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations textbooks, he is well-known to calculus instructors as author of The Historical Development of the Calculus (Springer-Verlag, 1979). During the 1990s he served as a principal investigator on three NSF-supported projects: (1) A school mathematics project including Maple for beginning algebra students, (2) A Calculus-with-Mathematica program, and (3) A MATLAB-based computer lab project for numerical analysis and differential equations students.

David E. Penney, University of Georgia, completed his Ph.D. at Tulane University in 1965 (under the direction of Prof. L. Bruce Treybig) while teaching at the University of New Orleans. Earlier he had worked in experimental biophysics at Tulane University and the Veteran's Administration Hospital in New Orleans under the direction of Robert Dixon McAfee, where Dr. McAfee's research team's primary focus was on the active transport of sodium ions by biological membranes. Penney's primary contribution here was the development of a mathematical model (using simultaneous ordinary differential equations) for the metabolic phenomena regulating such transport, with potential future applications in kidney physiology, management of hypertension, and treatment of congestive heart failure. He also designed and constructed servomechanisms for the accurate monitoring of ion transport, a phenomenon involving the measurement of potentials in microvolts at impedances of millions of megohms. Penney began teaching calculus at Tulane in 1957 and taught that course almost every term with enthusiasm and distinction until his retirement at the end of the last millennium. During his tenure at the University of Georgia he received numerous University-wide teaching awards as well as directing several doctoral dissertations and seven undergraduate research projects. He is the author of research papers in number theory and topology and is the author or co-author of textbooks on calculus, computer programming, differential equations, linear algebra, and liberal arts mathematics.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130648183
• ISBN-13: 978-0130648181
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,931,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only has the answers to the odd numbered questions, January 25, 2007

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Gilthoniel (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Multivariable Calculus with Matrices (Paperback)

This is the student solutions manual to the textbook: "Calculus, Early Transcendentals (6th Edition)" by C. Henry Edwards and David Penney.

Pearson Higher Education (Prentice Hall is one of their divisions) has an Instructor's Solutions Manual which has the answers to ALL of the problems in this book.

However, as of this writing, this Instructor's Manual is not available to the general public, nor are there any used copies floating around out there in the online used book markets. Pearson only sends this Manual out to college math departments.

The two separate Amazon listings for "Student Solutions Manual" and "Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Sixth Edition, Student Solutions Manual" are the same thing

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Multivariable Calculus with (mention of) Matrices, June 12, 2007

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This review is from: Multivariable Calculus with Matrices (6th Edition) (Paperback)

I'm giving this book three stars not because it's not a good book, but rather because the introduction to the book is misleading (as well as the title). They mention calculus with matrices in a couple chapters is all, and it's stuff you can find in your Ordinary Differential Equations books-the Jacobian, there is no mention of the Wronskian though.
This is a good book to get if you took calculus BC (2.1) in high school and UNDERSTOOD it, and are looking for something to pick up on your own to learn more. As an undergrad student it could be a useful reference if you feel your calculus book was inadequate. If you're looking for matrix calculus (i.e. tensor analysis) get a book on tensor calculus or tensor analysis, otherwise this book would be a waste of your time and money.
Like I said, well written book, good examples and good hand waving proofs of many concepts are in this book. There are also historical facts which make for an interesting read.

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a Differential Equations solutions manual!, February 4, 2008

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Nicole - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diffrntl Equatns& Boundary Valu Probs: Cmptg (Paperback)

Despite other product information and reviews on this page about a calculus text this ISBN 0-13-047579-3 is for the student solutions manual for the Differential equations and boundary value problems computing and modeling 3rd edition by Edwards and Penney. As with many solutions manuals I have used before there are often steps that are skipped, but overall it is a useful book. It won't do your homework for you, but it will sure help you find some silly mistakes or clarify how to do a particular type of problem faster than waiting to go to office hours.