Calculus, 7th Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0538497815 ISBN 13: 9780538497817

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2012

Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart's Calculus texts are worldwide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With Calculus (Seventh Edition), Stewart conveys not only the utility of calculus to help you develop technical competence, but also gives you an appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of the subject. His patient examples and built-in learning aids will help you build your mathematical confidence and achieve your goals in the course!

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About This Edition

James Stewart's calculus texts are widely renowned for their mathematical precision and accuracy, clarity of exposition, and outstanding examples and problem sets. Millions of students worldwide have explored calculus through Stewart's trademark style, while instructors have turned to his approach time and time again. In the Seventh Edition of Calculus, Stewart continues to set the standard for the course while adding carefully revised content. The patient explanations, superb exercises, focus on problem solving, and carefully graded problem sets that have made Stewart's texts best sellers continue to provide a strong foundation for the Seventh Edition. From the most unprepared student to the most mathematically gifted, Stewart's writing and presentation serve to enhance understanding and build confidence.

New Features

• Revised: For this edition, chapters 1 and 2 have been combined--and some material has been moved to an appendix--to streamline the presentation of these early topics.


• Revised: Throughout the text, the author has revised the narrative as necessary to improve clarity and aid in student comprehension.


• New: New examples, margin notes, applications, and projects have been added.


• New: This edition has been updated with approximately 25% more exercises than the previous edition, giving students more opportunities to practice concepts they have learned.


• New: "PS" icons denoting problem-solving margin notes are aimed at increasing instructors' awareness of this important aspect of Stewart's approach.


• Updated: Tools for Enriching Calculus--a free, online, interactive resource that allows Calculus students to work with animations that deepen their understanding of key concepts by helping them visualize the concepts they are learning--has been updated with new problems and a new Flash design that is more visually appealing and engaging to students.


• New: Collections of more challenging exercises called "Problems Plus" have been added to the end of every chapter. These sections reinforce concepts by requiring students to apply techniques from more than one chapter of the text, and by patiently showing them how to approach a challenging problem.

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Explore this title's supplements:

Multivariable Calculus (Seventh Edition)

Student Solutions Manual for Stewart's Multivariable Calculus (Seventh Edition)

Student Solutions Manual for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus (Seventh Edition)

Study Guide for Stewart's Multivariable Calculus (Seventh Edition)

Study Guide for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus (Seventh Edition)

About the Author:

The late James Stewart received his M.S. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He did research at the University of London and was influenced by the famous mathematician George Polya at Stanford University. Stewart was most recently Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University, and his research field was harmonic analysis. Stewart was the author of a best-selling calculus textbook series published by Cengage, including CALCULUS, CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, and CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, as well as a series of precalculus texts.