Calculus - Hardcover

Taalman, Laura; Kohn, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1429241861 ISBN 13: 9781429241861

Publisher: W. H. Freeman, 2013

Synopsis

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Many calculus textbooks look to engage students with margin notes, anecdotes, and other devices.  But many instructors find these distracting, preferring to captivate their science and engineering students with the beauty of the calculus itself. Taalman and Kohn’s refreshing new textbook is designed to help instructors do just that.

Taalman and Kohn’s Calculus offers a streamlined, structured exposition of calculus that combines the clarity of classic textbooks with a modern perspective on concepts, skills, applications, and theory. Its sleek, uncluttered design eliminates sidebars, historical biographies, and asides to keep students focused on what’s most important—the foundational concepts of calculus that are so important to their future academic and professional careers.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Taalman and Peter Kohn are professors of mathematics at James Madison University, where they have taught calculus for a combined total of over 30 years. Laura Taalman received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago
and master s and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Duke University. Her research includes singular algebraic geometry, knot theory, and the mathematics of games and puzzles. She is a recipient of both the Alder Award and the Trevor Evans award from the Mathematical Association of America, and the author of five books on Sudoku and the mathematics of Sudoku. In her spare time, she enjoys being a geek. Peter Kohn received his undergraduate degree from Antioch College, a master s
degree from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. His main areas of research are low-dimensional topology and knot theory. He has been a national judge for MathCounts since 2001. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and riding his bicycle in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
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Review:

"Taalman/Kohn is compact, accurate, precise, and mathematically both sound and elegant." - Michael Berg, Loyola Marymount University, USA "The writing is mathematically correct, linguistically correct, and conceptually clear." - Stavros Belbas, University of Alabama, USA "The categorized exercise sections make it very easy to choose assignments to do just what you want them to do." - Dan Rinne, California State University, San Bernardino, USA "The writing is very measured, very precise, and was (to me) a joy to read. There was a strong emphasis on understanding, which I like, and plenty of time was taken in examples and exercises to enable students to develop the relevant skills." - Antony Ware, University of Calgary, Canada "The authors set out to write a 'better kind of a calculus text', and I feel that they have achieved exactly that!" - Kanishka Perera, Florida Institute of Technology, USA "The authors have successfully written an easy-to-use, comprehensive text with excellent exposition." - Leonard Chastkofsky, University of Georgia, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1429241861
• ISBN 13: 9781429241861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1280