Essential Calculus with Applications

✍ Scribed by Richard A. Silverman

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rigorous but accessible text introduces undergraduate-level students to necessary background math, then clear coverage of differential calculus, differentiation as a tool, integral calculus, integration as a tool, and functions of several variables. Numerous problems and a supplementary section of "Hints and Answers." 1977 edition.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Essential Caulculus with Applications
Copyright
To the Instructor
To the Student
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND
1.1 Introductory Remarks
1.2 Sets
1.3 Numbers
1.4 Inequalities
1.5 The Absolute Value
1.6 Intervals and Neighborhoods
1.7 Rectangular Coordinates
1.8 Straight Lines
1.9 More about Straight Lines
Chapter 2 DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
2.1 Functions
2.2 More about Functions
2.3 Graphs
2.4 Derivatives and Limits
2.5 More about Derivatives
2.6 More about Limits
2.7 Differentiation Technique
2.8 Further Differentiation Technique
2.9 Other Kinds of Limits
Chapter 3 DIFFERENTIATION AS A TOOL
3.1 Velocity and Acceleration
3.2 Related Rates and Business Applications
3.3 Properties of Continuous Functions
3.4 Properties of Differentiable Functions
3.5 Applications of the Mean Value Theorem
3.6 Local Extrema
3.7 Concavity and Inflection Points
3.8 Optimization Problems
Chapter 4 INTEGRAL CALCULUS
4.1 The Definite Integral
4.2 Properties of Definite Integrals
4.3 The Logarithm
4.4 The Exponential
4.5 More about the Logarithm and Exponential
4.6 Integration Technique
4.7 Improper Integrals
Chapter 5 INTEGRATION AS A TOOL
5.1 Elementary Differential Equations
5.2 Problems of Growth and Decay
5.3 Problems of Motion
Chapter 6 FUNCTIONS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES
6.1 From Two to n Dimensions
6.2 Limitsand Differentiation
6.3 The Chain Rule
6.4 Extrema in n Dimensions
Tables
Selected Hints and Answers
Supplementary Hints and Answers
Index
A Catalog of Selected Dover Books in Scinence and Mathematics