This lively, informal applied calculus text?ideal for students in business, economics, life sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts?speaks directly to the student. In a clear, conversational style, the authors focus on key themes without bogging students down in peripheral detail. Well-chosen real-life examples keep student interest high and motivate students to apply the mathematics they are learning. The text is carefully structured while remaining interesting, clear, and relevant.
This text is available in two versions: a brief version suitable for a one-semester course and a full version for a two-semester course.
Alex Himonas received his B.S. from Patras University in Greece,and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is currentlyprofessor of mathematics at University of Notre Dame, where he haswon the Kaneb Teaching Award and received numerous National Sciencefoundation grants. His research interests include regularity ofsolutions to partial differential equations and the Cauchy problemfor non-linear evolution equations. Alex grew up in rural Greece,surrounded by five siblings and ninety-nine sheep. His mathematicaltalent first surfaced when his father asked him to calculate thevolume of their wine barrels in order to determine their holdingcapacity. His first encounter with Riemann sums came when he wasinvited to help the local surveyor measure the neighboring farms.As a youth, Alex was an avid beekeeper and also had a passion forastronomy. He spent many nights staring at the sky and studying theconstellations. These days, Alex returns to Greece every few years.Outside of mathematics, he enjoys swimming, gardening, and familytime with his wife and two children.
Alan Howard received his B.A. from Rutgers University and his Ph.D.from Brown University. He is currently professor of mathematics andassociate chair at University of Notre Dame, where he has wonnumerous teaching awards, including the Madden Award for excellencein teaching freshmen, the Shilts/Leonard Teaching Award, the NotreDame President's Award, and the Kaneb Teaching Award. He haspublished research papers in complex manifolds and complexanalysis. Alan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where theonly stars he ever noticed were those who played baseball for hisbeloved Brooklyn Dodgers. Alan's undergraduate major was Englishliterature, and he has maintained a lifelong interest in readingand writing fiction. In the mid-1980s he was fortunate to have twomystery novels published under the pseudonym of N.J. McIver: ComeBack, Alice Smythereene by St. Martin's Press and An AssassinPrepares by Doubleday. Alan is also an enthusiastic amateurmusician, whose taste runs the gamut from Claudio Monteverde toBill Monroe. His most persistent daydream these days is of sittingin as guest mandolinist with the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Whilewaiting for that to happen, he enjoys music sessions with his wife,daughters, and granddaughters, singing such timeless classics asThere Ain't No Flies on Me and The Teddy Bears' Picnic.
