Vector Calculus (5th, Hardcover)

Now in its fifth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book’s careful account is a contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, providing it’s readers with an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.Now in its fifth edition, Vector Calculus helps students gain an intuitive and solid understanding of this important subject. The book’s careful account is a contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, providing it’s readers with an insight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world.This textbook for a one semester course introduces the differential calculus and integration of real-valued and vector-valued functions with several variables, the change of variables formula, and the important theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes. The fifth edition adds a 12- page historical introduction and a section on integrals over curved surfaces. Annotation ⓒ2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)