For the 7th Edition of CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONS, the companion website LarsonCalculus.com offers free access to multiple tools and resources to supplement your learning. Stepped-out solution videos with instruction are available at CalcView.com for selected exercises throughout the text. The website CalcChat.com presents free solutions to odd-numbered exercises in the text. The site currently has over 1 million hits per month, so the authors analyzed these hits to see which exercise solutions you were accessing most often. They revised and refined the exercise sets based on this analysis.
this has to be one of my favorite texts on calculus I've read... it covers so much content in one book! this is the book that made me appreciate a lot of calculus' charm. the showcase of applications is utterly immerisive in my opinion too. there's one problem that stood out to me... it showcased topology and multi variable calculus .. it's one of my favorite calculus problems I've ever done. speaking of problems... this book has many practice problems which makes understanding the content so much easier. lastly this book has absolutely amazing diagrams and visuals ( especially when u get into the multi variable calculus section). overall I highly recommend this calculus book!
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Not bad, but not so good as Thomas Calculus. Though... It contains derivation of Jacobian formulae, description of Least Square method and derivation of potential and kinetic energies from line integrals, but Thomas doesn`t. Thomas contains Laplacian but this book doesn`t. So it`s necessary to read both.
No doubt, will have to come back to this to review various sections. Great overview of a lot of important calculus up to and including undergraduate level. Loads of exercises, and thorough explanations of concepts with good visual aids.
The lessons are very barren - no explanations for the majority of concepts beyond what you are able to pick up from the examples. Most of the time I find myself wondering what he's trying to get through to the hapless reader. Definitely not a very complicated book, but that is because of its lack of rigor, and so is not a positive.
This text & edition offers the best in pedagogy which I've encountered. Correspondingly this edition comes with CDs which interfaces MATLAB, Mathematica (etc.).