Multivariable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts (with Tools for Enriching Calculus, Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM, and iLrn Homework/Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Stewart
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 124982
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Pages: 512
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0534410049
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780534410049
Publication Date: November 4, 2004
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Stewart's MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS focuses on major concepts and supports them with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. Margin notes clarify and expand on topics presented in the main body of the text. The Tools for Enriching Calculus CD-ROM contains visualizations, interactive modules, and homework hints that enrich your learning experience. iLrn Homework helps you identify where you need additional help, and vMentor gives you live, one-on-one online help from an experienced calculus tutor. In addition, the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM takes you step-by-step through examples from the book.
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 Excellent Intro to Multivariable... May 11, 2004
Iason (Cambridge , MA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of the best introductory texts in multivariable calculus that I have seen in a long time. It was a required text and essentially, if you have this book, it is unnecessary to even go to class. All of the examples are clear and concise and combined with the excellent study guide, one can easily learn multivariable calculus from this book without even taking a course.
Excellent textbook but ... January 28, 2005
D. Harp (Greencastle, PA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This really is an excellent presentation of multivarible calculus! The "but..." in the review title relates to two facts:
1. I bought the book new for $45 only a few weeks ago through Amazon and
2. The book is actually the last six chapters of Stewart's larger "Calculus : Concepts and Contexts" (2nd edition, I think - the one going for around $139). So, if you're hell-bent on buying this book at the $100 plus price, you'd be better of just getting the full version. More bang for your buck!
Anyway, I have quite a few calculus texbooks at various levels of sophistication and this one is quickly stealing my heart. I'm finding that Stewart's manner of presentation and the chosen examples, problems, solutions, and graphics, are all well designed toward the end that students actually understand the beautiful "concepts and context" that form the soul of this magnificent subject. For what it's worth, I've found it fairly easy to take this book's material and plug it into Mathematica to play and poke and mess around in order to get an even more intimate and graphical feel for it (though no Mathematica notebooks are actually provided with this textbook). A solutions manual by Don Clagg is available here at Amazon (which I haven't recieved yet) and there's also available a LabCalc series of resources for various math programs such as Mathematica and Maple that are built specifically for this textbook.
OK - have fun, but don't fork out $133 or whatever it currently costs. I think maybe someone at Amazon or the publisher screwed up with the new pricing.
Concepts and Contexts July 10, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The text is written for the average student one who does not already know the subject, whose background is somewhat weak in spots, and who requires a significant motivation to study calculus.
Not bad at all January 17, 2008
the last math magician
First off, I must say that before buying this book I had already taken a Multivariable Calculus class at a community college with the Larson Multivariable Calculus book. I didn't pass it with the grade that I wanted so I took it again at my current University. Although the larson book is very student friendly as an introduction, the Stewart Multivariable book was surprisingly well written. I had experienced other stewart books that were not well written for a student that is barely learning the material, but this one is. Many examples and problems in this book help you really understand what you are doing along with many good proofs that were lacking in the larson book. Along with the student solution manual, this book will teach you well the concepts of an already difficult subject.
Excellent April 23, 2008
J. Osborne (Knoxville, TN USA)
It's true that this particular item only contains chapters eight through thirteen, selected appendices, and accompanying solutions. I also have the single variable calculus book from Stewart, and I have to say that this is the best set of texts I have for learning calculus. There are very few errors, and the examples are very clear. The problems at the end of every section range in difficulty from easy to somewhat difficult, and with an accompanying solutions manual, you too can master calculus. :D
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