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Calculus, Seventh Edition
by Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler, Bruce H. Edwards, David E. Heyd
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (2001-07-11)
ISBN: 0618141804
EAN: 9780618141807
Dewy Decimal #: 515
Hardcover: 1091 pages
Edition: 7
SKU: 111008003
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: LMC has cd...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting.....moderate cover wear..
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Designed for the three-semester course for math and science majors, the Larson/Hostetler/Edwards series continues its tradition of success by being the first to offer both an Early Transcendental version as well as a new Calculus with Precalculus text. This was also the first calculus text to use computer-generated graphics (Third Edition), to include exercises involving the use of computers and graphing calculators (Fourth Edition), to be available in an interactive CD-ROM format (Fifth Edition), and to be offered as a complete, online calculus course (Sixth Edition). Every edition of the book has made the mastery of traditional calculus skills a priority, while embracing the best features of new technology and, when appropriate, calculus reform ideas. The Seventh Edition also expands its support package with an all-new set of text-specific videos. - P.S. Problem-Solving Sections, an additional set of thought-provoking exercises added to the end of each chapter, require students to use a variety of problem-solving skills and provide a challenging arena for students to work with calculus concepts.
- Getting at the Concept Exercises added to each section exercise set check students' understanding of the basic concepts. Located midway through the exercise set, they are both boxed and titled for easy reference.
- Review Exercises at the end of each chapter have been reorganized to provide students with a more effective study tool. The exercises are now grouped and correlated by text section, enabling students to target concepts requiring review.
- The icon "IC" in the text identifies examples that appear in the Interactive Calculus 3.0 CD-ROM and Internet Calculus 2.0 web site with enhanced opportunities for exploration and visualization using the program itself and/or a Computer Algebra System.
- Think About It conceptual exercises require students to use their critical-thinking skills and help them develop an intuitive understanding of the underlying theory of the calculus.
- Modeling Data multi-part questions ask students to find and interpret mathematical models to fit real-life data, often through the use of a graphing utility.
- Section Projects, extended applications that appear at the end of selected exercise sets. may be used for individual, collaborative, or peer-assisted assignments.
- True or False? Exercises, included toward the end of many exercises sets, help students understand the logical structure of calculus and highlight concepts, common errors, and the correct statements of definitions and theorems.
- Motivating the Chapter sections opening each chapter present data-driven applications that explore the concepts to be covered in the context of a real-world setting.
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent Calculus Book for First Time Learners and Self Learners
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-04
I believe this book is excellent compared to James Stewart's Calculus. Using this book was helpful in high school, but was even more helpful in college. As I didn't take a rigorous calculus course in high school, when I got to college and was using the Stewart book I found it to be quite confusing. Following the advice of a friend, I decided to purchase this book because of its clarity in explaining the concepts of calculus. Another plus of this book is that it has material for Calc I, II, and III. As I have decided to learn more advanced mathematics this will aid me in accomplishing my goal by being able to learn the Calculus sequence.
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top notch and all inclusive book
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
practically free too
I am using this to study for the GRE and GMAT to prepare for grad school math
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Decent text but by no means excellent.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-09-13
6 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
This was the book I used in high school, and while it was certainly decent, it would not have been very useful without the aid of my excellent calculus teacher.
I have many of the same criticisms of this book as I do of the Stewart, although I do think this book does a slightly better job in the very beginning, for example, when introducing the limit, and also in that it leaves out some of the extraneous and confusing attempts at applications in the first chapter. I still think the book contains too many confusing applications from the second chapter onward. I do think the book would be improved by having a completely separate section covering the definition of the limit, however.
I like the prose in the examples. I like the presentation of some of the material from multivariable calculus. But again, this book is like a typical intro calc book--it's not rigorous enough, has too much brute force, too many applications, not enough mathematics, not enough creativity. This book doesn't cultivate the awe and wonder that should be present when a student learns calculus.
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The best book of it's kind.
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-10-05
18 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
Every concept and example is explained with just the right amount of words and visual aids. The author has talent. The talent is his ability to pass the relevant information straight to the center of your brain, and the ability to bind the whole subject together.
In comparison, Stewart's Calculus book is just a compilation of information. With each new edition, Stewart adds more footnotes and side notes. The footnotes and side notes really only serve as a bandage to prevent the information of his book from falling apart.
While Larson is presenting us with a complete and beautiful product, Stewart is scrambling to keep his product at par.
Larson's book is the best all purpose high school and undergraduate book of it's kind. The website of the book is great and holds interesting additional information.
Some cons. The book is big heavy and expensive. Some key precalculus reviews are missing in the main book, however, they are available on the book's website.
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The Best Calculus Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-09-06
12 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the best Calculus book, or for that matter, one of the best text books I have ever studied. I transfered colleges and have had the opportunity to see other Calc books. This book (with the solution manual) explains the problems thoroghly and each problem section starts with the very easy, and the gradually moves into the challenging. It also works in real world applications to make your study of the subject much more interesting. I give the book an A+.
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