Vector Calculus

Using meaningful examples, credible applications, and incisive technology, this book strives to empower students, enhance their critical thinking skills, and equip them with the knowledge and skills to succeed in the major or discipline they ultimately choose to study. An engaging style and clear writing make the language of mathematics accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, with a high standard for mathematical rigor.

A calculus book must tell the truth.This book is carefully written in the accepted language of mathematics in a readable exposition.It includes useful and fascinating applications, acquaints students with the history of the subject and offers a sense of what mathematics is all about.

Technique is presented, yet so are ideas. The author helps students to master basic methods and how to discover and build their own concepts in a scientific subject. There is an emphasis on using modeling and numerical calculation. Additional features include:

• A Quick Quiz and Problems for Practice, Further Theory and Practice and Calculator/Computer Exercises appear at the end of each section.

• All exercise sets are step laddered.

• A Look Back and A Look Forward help students put the ideas in context.

• Every chapter ends with a section called Genesis and Development, giving history and perspective on key topics in the evolution of calculus.

• Boxed Insights clear up a point or answer commonly asked question.

• The text has an extra-large offering of examples.

• Examples are illustrated with meaningful and useful graphics.

The goal is to empower students, enhance their critical thinking skills, and give them the intellectual equipment to proceed successfully in whatever major or discipline they ultimately choose to study. This text is intended to be a cornerstone of that process.

The pedagogical features make the subject more interesting and accessible to students than other texts, while maintaining an appropriate rigor. --Daniel Cunningham, CSU-Fresno

This text is truly well written and organized. I do like the fact the book is quite rigorous, yet full of illustrative examples. --Bob Devaney, Boston University