CALCULUS THE EASY WAY - Softcover

DOUGLAS DOWNING PH.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812040783 ISBN 13: 9780812040784

Publisher: BARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES, INC., 1988

Synopsis

This ingenious, user-friendly introduction to calculus recounts adventures that take place in the mythical land of Carmorra. As the story's narrator meets Carmorra's citizens, they confront a series of practical problems, and their method of working out solutions employs calculus. As readers follow their adventures, they are introduced to calculating derivatives; finding maximum and minimum points with derivatives; determining derivatives of trigonometric functions; discovering and using integrals; working with logarithms, exponential functions, vectors, and Taylor series; using differential equations; and much more. This introduction to calculus presents exercises at the end of each chapter and gives their answers at the back of the book. Step-by-step worksheets with answers are included in the chapters. Computers are used for numerical integration and other tasks. The book also includes graphs, charts, and whimsical line illustrations. Barron's Easy Way books introduce a variety of academic and practical subjects to students and general readers in clear, understandable language. Ideal as self-teaching manuals for readers interested in learning a new career-related skill, these books have also found widespread classroom use as supplementary texts and brush-up test-preparation guides. Subject heads and key phrases that need to be learned are set in a second color.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
ALL THE ESSENTIALS IN ONE CLEAR VOLUME
by Douglas Downing, Ph.D.

A user-friendly introduction to calculus in the form of a novel

Exercises with answers at the end of each chapter

Step-by-step worksheets

Graphs, charts, and line illustrations

Calculating derivatives

Finding maximum and minimum points with derivatives

Determining derivatives of trigonometric functions

Exponential functions, vectors, and Taylor series

Using differential equations

Much more

About the Author

Douglas Downing earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale, and has taught economics at Seattle Pacific University since 1983. Calculus the Easy Way is part of a trilogy with Algebra the Easy Way and Trigonometry the Easy Way, all written be Douglas Downing and available from Barron's.

Edition details

• Publisher: BARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES, INC.
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812040783
• ISBN 13: 9780812040784
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 307