Description
Book SynopsisAdvanced Calculus: Theory and Practice, Second Edition offers a text for a one- or two-semester course on advanced calculus or analysis. The text improves students' problem-solving and proof-writing skills, familiarizes them with the historical development of calculus concepts, and helps them understand the connections among different topics.
The book explains how various topics in calculus may seem unrelated but have common roots. Emphasizing historical perspectives, the text gives students a glimpse into the development of calculus and its ideas from the age of Newton and Leibniz to the twentieth century. Nearly 300 examples lead to important theorems.
Features of the Second Edition:
- Improved Organization. Chapters are reorganized to address common preferences.
- Enhanced Coverage of Axiomatic Systems.
Table of Contents
Real Numbers; Sequences and Their Limits; Continuity; The Derivative; The Indefinite Integral; The Definite Integral; Infinite Series; Sequences and Series of Functions; Fourier Series; Functions of Several Variables; Derivatives; Implicit Functions and Optimization; Integrals Depending on a Parameter; Integration in Rn, Fundamental Theorems; Solutions and Answers to Selected Problems; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index
