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Title: Multivariable Calculus: Preliminary Edition by William McCallum, Deborah Hughes-Hallet, Andrew Gleason ISBN: 0-471-12256-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pub. Date: August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.05 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: if u r a math major, better use antoher book
Comment: this book is a devil of math, if u want to see excellent proofs on divergence theorem, stokes theorem, I suggest you Edwads and Penny, 5th edition on calculus, the ISBN is 0137613547, this book is better than Anton's book on the part about vector calculus and multiple integrals, the author connects every theorems together. I got the whole idea of vector calculus in a week by just selfstudying. If you want to study basic calculus, Howard Anton is the choice, well Stewart is ok, u can use both of them. Don't use this book, I serious warn you.
Rating: 1
Summary: The sailboat on the cover is the best part.
Comment: Besides the picture on the front, this book is horrible! I've learned more by personal derivation and experimenting than through this book. The explanations are overly bloated, and include so many approximations and tables that the theory behind this book's ramblings is lost completely. Instead of focusing on theoretical multivariable calculus while introducing, as a short diversion an approximating method, this book builds around a foundation of approximations, which clouds the actual mathematics in the process.
In my opinion, unless theory is ingrained in students' heads from the start, they will never even attempt to understand it. After all, the book gives the theory second priority, so why should students pay any attention to it?
Moreover, in the introduction, the book promises to have problem sets that a student "cannot just look for a similar example to solve... you will have to think." However, after working with this book's homework problems, I've found them to be the exact opposite of this! There are plenty of similar examples for any given problem, and as a result the teacher's role becomes trivial, while at the same time students don't really understand anything they're doing. Not only this, but the problems are overly MUNDANE, and there is too much practice for a single concept. If a student has taken calculus, he can do derivatives, so he should not need 31 exercises to learn how to do partial derivatives.
Capping all this off, there are no truly challenging problems at all in this book. All of them focus on mechanical methods rather than clever application of known theory. The biggest challenge in this book, in fact, is keeping your hand intact as you take 50 partial derivatives, and then hit a problem that says "repeat for the second partial derivatives."
Meanwhile, your fine motor skills deteriorate quickly as you overwork them drawing or re-drawing a graph or table every other problem.
Bravo, Debbie Hughes, you can use Mathematica's graphing capabilities to their fullest. We're all proud of you. Now can you keep them out of your textbook? No one wants to see a billion tables staring them in the face, and then have to copy and change a billion more for homework. That's not a way to learn. This whole textbook is just a way to pretend you're learning.
Waiting to really learn anything from this book is like waiting for Richard Simmons to get married. Trust me, it's not gonna happen, folks.
kubkhan
Rating: 1
Summary: Beware!
Comment: "This innovative book is the product of an NSF funded calculus consortium based at Harvard University and was developed as part of the calculus reform movement" Beware of Harvard, i.e. reform Calculus. Instead of teaching people about maxima and minima, you show them how to use a calculator to guess. What a load of junk. Nobody learns what anything means, just how to apply formulas, etc. It is a shame what books and authors like these are doing to college mathematics. This book is particularly bad, a whole bunch of fluff, not a damn ounce of substance.
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Title: Exercises In Multivariable and Vector Calculus by Caspar R. Curjel ISBN: 0070149496 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $40.50 |
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Title: Multivariable Calculus, Student Solutions Manual by William G. McCallum, David Mumford, Douglas A. Quinney, Deborah Hughes-Hallett ISBN: 0471173568 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.85 |
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