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| Calculus: Single Variable | 
 enlarge | Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, William G. Mccallum, Daniel E. Flath, Patti Frazer Lock, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, Brad G. Osgood, Thomas W. Tucker, Douglas Quinney, Karen Rhea, Jeff Tecosky-feldman
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
Buy Used: $38.69
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 66546
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471484822
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780471484820
ASIN: 0471484822
Publication Date: November 19, 2004
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Condition: Paperback 2005 (no CD). Worn cover. Corners show wear, tip curls. No marks detected. Contains other imperfections.
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Product Description
Now in its fourth edition, Calculus reflects the strong consensus within the mathematics community for a balance between contemporary and traditional ideas. Building on previous work, it brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of instructors and students alike. The text exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that is easy to understand, and a flexible approach to technology.
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 Concise, Somewhat Thorough, and Painfully Difficult to Understand January 18, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
At first, I thought that I would enjoy this textbook. All of the sections are concise and direct.
However, spending hours each day with this textbook failed to give me a clear, intuitive picture of some of calculus' fundamental ideas. It was only afterwards, after I had long forgotten this curse of a book, that I finally began to understand calculus...
The problem with this text is that it is not written with the perspective of the neophyte in mind. It is dense and doesn't alert the reader to common conceptual pitfalls. It ties the reader to details before the larger ideas (such as "what is a derivative" and "what is an integral") are understood. It also doesn't prepare the reader well for many of the problem sets. Dealing with this book was a really inefficient, time-consuming, and frustrating experience. I believe that students deserve better.
Also, this book is really expensive for a paperback!
 A Bad Book January 22, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is terrible. I used it for both calc 1 and 2. The University of Connecticut used this book for 3 semesters and than decided it was junk. Most of the math department hated the book and for the spring 07 semester they switched to the James Stewart book which is used for multivariable.
The problems are very hard and often the chapter does not show how to solve or give you strageties to solve them, the book does nothing well and is just an expensive paper back book with a horrible solution manual.
Terrible book! August 3, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book does not provide enough examples, and the few they do give are nothing like the work problems. Every teacher I've had has said if they were not required to use it, they would use a different book. And on top of that, it is ridiculously expensive! I have finally been forced to get another text book, and it is much better (and cheaper). Do not get this book if you have a choice.
The worst calculus book on the market September 1, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This author has written a series of calculus books, and every one is deficient on numerous levels. She presumes a prior understanding of the subject and therefore her books do not cater to the first time student (of a particular subject). I have switched sections to get classes where her books are not used and gotten A's as a result. Its a terrible book, beware!
Opaque; provides little context; all but useless to the freshman October 26, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Little explanation or background is provided to orient the student; the book assumes the reader has been using trigonometry and algebra on a daily basis for the better part of adulthood. An example of this is the section on rates and related rates (4.6). There are two paragraphs given in the way of explanation:
"Derivatives represent rates of change. In this section, we see how to calculate rates in a variety of situations."
And...
"In Example 1, the radius of the snowball decreased at a constant rate. A more realistic scenario is for the radius to decrease at different rates at different times. Then, we may not be able to write a formula for V as a function of t. However, we may still be able to calculate dV/dt, as in the following example."
No mention of how the process of working related rates problems is similar to implicit differentiation. No step-by-step outline of a general way to go about working this category of problem. Just examples outside of any framework.
Better for a refresher in Calculus for graduate students than a freshman-level course. I used Stewart's "Calculus: Concepts and Contexts" to learn how to do the assigned work from this text.
Don't think the solutions manual will help--only a subset of the odd problems in the text are described and the explanations are often wanting.
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