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Offers a conceptual and practical introduction to differential and integral calculus for use in a one- or two-semester course. By boiling calculus down to six common-sense ideas, the text invites students to make calculus an integral part of how they view the world. Each pillar is introduced by tackling and solving a challenging, realistic problem.

Table of Contents
  • Instructors' guide and background
  • What is calculus? The Six Pillars
  • Predicting the future: The SIR model
  • Close is good enough!
  • Track the changes!
  • Computing and using derivatives (What goes up has to stop before it comes down)
  • Models of growth and oscillation
  • The whole is the sum of the parts
  • The fundamental theorem of calculus (One step at the time)
  • Methods of integration
  • One variable at a time!
  • Taylor series
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-AMM American Mathematical
      Publication Date: 7/30/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781470469955, 978-1470469955
      ISBN10: 1470469952

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a conceptual and practical introduction to differential and integral calculus for use in a one- or two-semester course. By boiling calculus down to six common-sense ideas, the text invites students to make calculus an integral part of how they view the world. Each pillar is introduced by tackling and solving a challenging, realistic problem.

      Table of Contents
      • Instructors' guide and background
      • What is calculus? The Six Pillars
      • Predicting the future: The SIR model
      • Close is good enough!
      • Track the changes!
      • Computing and using derivatives (What goes up has to stop before it comes down)
      • Models of growth and oscillation
      • The whole is the sum of the parts
      • The fundamental theorem of calculus (One step at the time)
      • Methods of integration
      • One variable at a time!
      • Taylor series
      • Index

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