A First Course in Calculus (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

Lang, Serge

ISBN 10: 0387962018 / ISBN 13: 9780387962016

Published by Springer, New York, 1998

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Hardcover, Fifth Edition, no jacket as issued. Clean, tight, unmarked. "This fifth edition of Lang's book covers all the topics traditionally taught in the first-year calculus sequence. Divided into five parts, each section of A FIRST COURSE IN CALCULUS contains examples and applications relating to the topic covered. In addition, the rear of the book contains detailed solutions to a large number of the exercises, allowing them to be used as worked-out examples -- one of the main improvements over previous editions.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A First Course in Calculus (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
• Publisher: Springer, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387962018
• ISBN 13: 9780387962016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 24 ounces

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Synopsis

The purpose of a first course in calculus is to teach the student the basic notions of derivative and integral, and the basic techniques and applica­ tions which accompany them. The very talented students, with an ob­ vious aptitude for mathematics, will rapidly require a course in functions of one real variable, more or less as it is understood by professional is not primarily addressed to them (although mathematicians. This book I hope they will be able to acquire from it a good introduction at an early age). I have not written this course in the style I would use for an advanced monograph, on sophisticated topics. One writes an advanced monograph for oneself, because one wants to give permanent form to one's vision of some beautiful part of mathematics, not otherwise ac­ cessible, somewhat in the manner of a composer setting down his sym­ phony in musical notation. This book is written for the students to give them an immediate, and pleasant, access to the subject. I hope that I have struck a proper com­ promise, between dwelling too much on special details and not giving enough technical exercises, necessary to acquire the desired familiarity with the subject. In any case, certain routine habits of sophisticated mathematicians are unsuitable for a first course. Rigor. This does not mean that so-called rigor has to be abandoned.