Burstein, and Lax's Calculus with Applications and Computing offers meaningful explanations of the important theorems of single variable calculus. Written with students in mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering in mind, and revised with their help, it shows that the themes of calculation, approximation, and modeling are central to mathematics and the main ideas of ...
Burstein, and Lax's Calculus with Applications and Computing offers meaningful explanations of the important theorems of single variable calculus. Written with students in mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering in mind, and revised with their help, it shows that the themes of calculation, approximation, and modeling are central to mathematics and the main ideas of single variable calculus. This edition brings the innovation of the first edition to a new generation of students. New sections in this book use simple, elementary examples to show that when applying calculus concepts to approximations of functions, uniform convergence is more natural and easier to use than point-wise convergence. As in the original, this edition includes material that is essential for students in science and engineering, including an elementary introduction to complex numbers and complex-valued functions, applications of calculus to modeling vibrations and population dynamics, and an introduction to probability and information theory.
作者简介
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Peter D. Lax is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Maria Shea Terrell is currently a Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Director of Teaching Assistant Programs at Cornell University.
原文摘录
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Our purpose in writing a calculus text has been to help students learn at first hand that mathematics is the language in which scientific ideas can be precisely formulated, that science is a source of mathematical ideas that profoundly shape the development of mathematics, and that mathematics can furnish brilliant answers to important scientific problems.
The answer is that science and mathematics are growing by leaps and bounds on the research frontier, so what we teach in high school, college, and graduate school must not be allowed to fall too far behind. As mathematician and educators, our goal must be to simplify the teaching of old topics to take room for new ones.
our aim is to foster understanding, not "rigor."
We have worked hard in this revision to show that uniform convergence... (查看原文)
One cannot exaggerate the importance in calculus of inequalities between numbers. Inequalities are at the heart of the basic notion of convergence, an idea central to calculus. Inequalities can be used to prove the equality of two numbers by showing that one is neither less than nor greater than the other. (查看原文)
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