eBook Calculus: The Language Of Change ePub

David Cohen, a senior lecturer at UCLA, was the original author of the successful, well-respected .

David Cohen, a senior lecturer at UCLA, was the original author of the successful, well-respected precalculus series-COLLEGE ALGEBRA, ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY, PRECALCULUS: A PROBLEMS-ORIENTED APPROACH, and PRECALCULUS: WITH UNIT CIRCLE TRIGONOMETRY. Hardcover: 988 pages.

Adaptable to courses for non-engineering majors, this textbook illustrates the meaning of a curve through graphs and tests predictions through numerical values of change, before formally defining the limit of a sequence and function, the derivative, and the integral.

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ISBN 13: 9780763729479. David Cohen, a senior lecturer at UCLA, was the original author of the successful, well-respected precalculus series-COLLEGE ALGEBRA, ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY, PRECALCULUS: A PROBLEMS-ORIENTED APPROACH, and PRECALCULUS: WITH UNIT CIRCLE TRIGONOMETRY.

So Cohen and Henle introduce the idea of derivatives and integrals in chapter one: derivatives are rates of change, integrals are the overall accumulated change given the rate. Then come the pictures: graphs, slopes, the relationship between the graph of the function and the graph of the derivative (in both directions). That only gets us halfway through the book, but it should be enough to make it clear that the authors are not afraid to be different. The sections that follow continue in that style.

The fifty-two projects presented in this text offer the opportunity to expand the use and understanding of mathematics. The wide range of topics will appeal to both instructors and students. Shorter, less demanding projects can be managed by the independent learner, while more involved, in-depth projects may be used for group learning. Each task draws on special mathematical topics and applications from subjects including medicine, engineering, economics, ecology, physics, and biology.

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