Essential Calculus : 2nd Edition

Essential Calculus : 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781133112297
Publication Date: 2 March 2012

This book is for instructors who think that most calculus textbooks are too long. In writing the book, James Stewart asked himself: What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? Essential Calculus, Second Edition, offers a concise approach to teaching calculus that focuses on major concepts, and supports those concepts with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. The book is only 900 pages two-thirds the size of Stewart's other calculus texts, and yet it contains almost all of the same topics.

The author achieved this relative brevity primarily by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the book's website, Despite the more compact size, the book has a modern flavor, covering technology and incorporating material to promote conceptual understanding, though not as prominently as in Stewart's other books. Essential Calculus features the same attention to detail, eye for innovation, and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewart's textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.

About the Author

The late James Stewart received his M.S. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He did research at the University of London and was influenced by the famous mathematician George Polya at Stanford University. Stewart was most recently Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University, and his research field was harmonic analysis.

Stewart was the author of a best-selling calculus textbook series published by Cengage Learning, including Calculus, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, and Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, as well as a series of precalculus texts.