Brief Calculus

An Applied Approach, Enhanced Edition (with Webassign Printed Access Card, Single-Term)

Professor Ron Larson (Autor)

Media-Kombination

704 Seiten

2009 | 8th Enhanced ed.
Cengage Learning, Inc
978-1-4390-4780-4 (ISBN)

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BRIEF CALCULUS: AN APPLIED APPROACH, 8e, motivates students while fostering understanding and mastery. This brief book emphasizes integrated and engaging applications that show users the real-world relevance of topics and concepts. Several pedagogical features from algebra review to study tips provide extra guidance and practice. The Eighth Edition builds upon its applications emphasis through updated exercises and relevant examples. Applied problems drawn from government sources, industry, current events, and other disciplines provide well-rounded examples and appeal to diverse interests. This Enhanced Edition includes instant access to Enhanced WebAssign, the most widely-used and reliable homework system. Enhanced WebAssign presents over a thousand problems, links to relevant textbook sections, video examples, problem-specific tutorials, and more, that help students grasp the concepts needed to succeed in this course. As an added bonus, the Start Smart Guide has been bound into this text. This guide contains instructions to help users learn the basics of WebAssign quickly.

Dr. Ron Larson is a professor of mathematics at The Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught since 1970. He is considered the pioneer of using multimedia to enhance the learning of mathematics, having authored more than 30 software titles since 1990. Dr. Larson has also authored numerous acclaimed textbooks, including the best-selling calculus series published by Cengage. He is the recipient of the 2017 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award for PRECALCULUS, the 2018 Text and Academic Authors Association TEXTY Award for CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS and the 2017 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award for CALCULUS. He also received the 1996 Text and Academic Authors Association TEXTY Award for INTERACTIVE CALCULUS -- a complete text on CD-ROM that was the first mainstream college textbook to be offered on the internet.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2009
Reihe/Serie	Available 2010 Titles Enhanced Web Assign
Zusatzinfo	Graphs; Charts; Figures; Maps; Tables, color; Line drawings, color; Line drawings, black and white; Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Florence
Sprache	englisch
Maße	205 x 262 mm
Gewicht	1456 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
ISBN-10	1-4390-4780-4 / 1439047804
ISBN-13	978-1-4390-4780-4 / 9781439047804
Zustand	Neuware