Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (+Solutions Manual)
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Note: The book has color design.
The new edition of Thomas is a return to what Thomas has always been: the book with the best exercises. For the 11th edition, the authors have added exercises cut in the 10th edition, as well as, going back to the classic 5th and 6th editions for additional exercises and examples. The book's theme is that Calculus is about thinking; one cannot memorize it all. The exercises develop this theme as a pivot point between the lecture in class, and the understanding that comes with applying the ideas of Calculus. In addition, the table of contents has been refined to match the standard syllabus. Many of the examples have been trimmed of distractions and rewritten with a clear focus on the main ideas. The authors have also excised extraneous information in general and have made the technology much more transparent. The ambition of Thomas 11e is to teach the ideas of Calculus so that students will be able to apply them in new and novel ways, first in the exercises but ultimately in their careers. Every effort has been made to insure that all content in the new edition reinforces thinking and encourages deep understanding of the material.
Reviews
Summary: Average Calculus Text
Rating: 3
Great for students in engineering or science--but not for mathematics majors who will go on to take analysis and algebra. They deserve a treatment by Spivak or Apostol. There are some interesting problems that follow the end of each chapter. Overall, it's not that interesting, but not that bad in terms of material presentation.
Summary: Good, but could be better
Rating: 4
I just completed the Calc series using Thomas Calculus. In Calc I, the instructor commented that we would use this text and that it wasn't the best or the worst (a VERY safe claim to make). I would agee with that.
I found the instructional text adequate but we experienced several cases where the solution to end-of-section problems was not the technique being covered in the section.
I used the softbound vol 1 & 2. You can save some money if you are taking a semester or two of calculus, but if you intend to cover Calc III & IV, I recommend buying the hard bound.
Summary: One of the better ones.
Rating: 4
My boyfriend took two semesters of Calc with this book and was able to essentially self teach himself all of it. The examples are well explained and the problems reflect the section material very well.
Summary: Great Graphics = Easy Teaching
Rating: 4
I took calculus back in college in the early 1970s and I was very pleased to see how much color graphics have done to make this subject understandable. I was using this book to tutor my daughter and I found it much easier than I thought it would be to teach her about the Taylor Series (for example) because of the clever use of color on the graph (showing how fit improved as more terms were added to the series). The book was very readable and seemed to be rigorous (I'm not a mathematician, but I couldn't see that anything was missing).
Be careful if you want a book on second order differential equations. There are two problems: One small problem is that this book sometimes has a chapter on second order differential equations and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not talking about two editions either...the 11th edition may or may not have that material (I think it is chapter 17). I suppose they had two printings so beware of the used copies if you want that material. Also, the table on second order differential equations has an error in it (I think it said k when it should have said ki...).
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