Publisher's Synopsis
"Calculus is one of the greatest achievements of the human intellect. Inspired by problems in astronomy, Newton and Leibniz developed the ideas of calculus 300 years ago. Each century since then has demonstrated the power of calculus to illuminate questions in mathematics, the physical sciences, engineering, business, and the social and biological sciences. Calculus has been so successful because of its extraordinary power to reduce complicated problems to simple rules and procedures. Therein lies the danger in teaching calculus: it is possible to teach the subject as nothing but the rules and proceduresâi"thereby losing sight of both the mathematics and of its practical value. This edition of Applied Calculus not only continues our effort to promote courses in which understanding reinforces computation but also strives to address the context in which we will be teaching calculus for the next decade. The revisions for this edition were
