Shorter book = smaller price tag — Costs students approximately .00 less than other mainstream calculus books.
Perfectly paced — The economical presentation enables instructors to move through the book at a reasonable pace, covering one section per lecture easily.
Rigor is emphasized, while also developing conceptual understanding — Helps students to devise a mental picture before getting a formal definition.
Student development of “number sense” is encouraged — Emphasizes estimation as a technique to learn number sense, which helps students to catch their numerical mistakes by recognizing answers that don’t make sense.
Moderate and reasonable integration of technology — Technology is carefully incorporated in exercises (and marked as such). Each chapter has 2 technology projects divided into 3 parts: (1) Preparation (think about the question before diving into technology) (2) Using Technology (3) Reflection (think a little deeper).
Clear connections are drawn between algebra and geometry in the text and in figures— For example,geometric reasoning is used to understand a difficult concept in Figure 2 and Example on p.437 of the eighth edition.
Huge number of high quality exercises that have benefited from years of development:
* Makes creating varied assignments easy.
* Every section exercise set begins with a Concepts Review, ensuring students get the big picture before sharpening his/her skills.
Figures convey, not hide, mathematical ideas — Figures are intentionally drawn simply, to reflect a sketch a student might draw, unlike the overly elaborate figures in other books.
New to This Edition
New Chapter Openers now appear throughout the book:
* Each chapter begins with a set of “Review and Preview Problems” that serve as a necessary review of previous material or a preview of things to come.
MyMathLab, the online course designed to accompany the text — Includes an online tutorial, assessment, text, videos, Student Solutions Manual, and access to Prentice Hall Tutor Center.
Maple, Student Version Software — Is available for only .00 with purchase of a new text.
Numerical methods rearranged to the appropriate chapters:
* Newton’s method in “Applications of the Derivative”
* numerical integration in “The Definite Integral”
* Taylor polynomial approximation in “Infinite Series”
* Euler’s method in “Transcendental Functions” or “Techniques of Integration and Differential Equations.”
Single-chapter coverage of two- and three-dimensional vectors rather than in separate chapters.
Streamlined material on conic sections — from five sections to three.
New section on “Strategies for Integration” in the chapter on Techniques of Integration — Includes a summary of the methods of integration and a comparison of exact and numerical integration.
New section on “Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals” in the chapter on Multiple Integration.
New section on “Probability and Random Variables” in the chapter on Applications of the Integral.
Table of Contents I. Introduction and Foundations
1. Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment
2. Business on Purpose
3. The Fundamental Concepts of Business Decisions
4. The Business Decision-Making Process
5. Interest: The Time Value of Money
6. Other Interest(ing) Calculations
7. Equivalence
8. Bases for Comparison
9. Developing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives
II. Making For-profit Business Decisions
10. For-Profit Decision Analysis
11. Planning Horizons and Economic Life
12. Replacement and Retirement Decisions
III. Advanced For-profit Decision Techniques
13. Inflation and Deflation
14. Depreciation
15. General Accounting and Cost Accounting
16. Income Taxes and After-Tax Cash-Flow Streams
17. The Consequences of Income Taxes onBusiness Decisions
IV. Making Decisions in Government and Nonprofit Organizations
18. Making Not-for-Profit Business Decisions
V. Present Economy.
19. Break-Even Analysis.
20. Optimization Analysis. VI. Estimation, Risk, and Uncertainty.
21. Basic Estimation Concepts.
22. General Estimation Techniques.
23. Allowing for Inaccuracy in Estimates.
24. Decision Making Under Risk.
25. Decision Making Under Uncertainty. VII. Multiple-Attribute Decisions.
26. Decisions Based on Multiple Attributes. VIII. Summary.
27. Closing Remarks
Dale Varberg,Hamline University Edwin Purcell Steve Rigdon, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville