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For three-semester or four-quarter courses in Calculus for students majoring in mathematics, engineering, or science



Clarity and precision

Thomas´ Calculus helps students reach the level of mathematical proficiency and maturity you require, but with support for students who need it through its balance of clear and intuitive explanations, current applications, and generalized concepts. In the 14th SI Edition, new co-author Christopher Heil (Georgia Institute of Technology) partners with author Joel Hass to preserve what is best about Thomas´ time-tested text while reconsidering every word and every piece of art with today´s students in mind. The result is a text that goes beyond memorizing formulas and routine procedures to help students generalize key concepts and develop deeper understanding.





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Teach calculus the way you want to teach it, and at a level that prepares students for their STEM majors

· New co-author Chris Heil (Georgia Institute of Technology) and co-author Joel Hass continue Thomas' tradition of developing students' mathematical maturity and proficiency, going beyond memorizing formulas and routine procedures, and showing students how to generalize key concepts once they are introduced.

· The authors are careful to present key topics, such as the definition of the derivative, both informally and formally. The distinction between the two is clearly stated as each is developed, including an explanation as to why a formal definition is needed. Ideas are introduced with examples and intuitive explanations that are then generalized so that students are not overwhelmed by abstraction.

· Results are both carefully stated and proved throughout the book, and proofs are clearly explained and motivated. Students and instructors who proceed through the formal material will find it as carefully presented and explained as the informal development. If the instructor decides to downplay formality at any stage, it will not cause problems with later developments in the text.

· A flexible table of contents divides topics into manageable sections, allowing instructors to tailor their course to meet the specific needs of their students.

· Complete and precise multivariable coverage enhances the connections of multivariable ideas with their single-variable analogues studied earlier in the book.



Assess student understanding of key concepts and skills through a wide range of time-tested exercises

· Strong exercise sets feature a great breadth of problems-progressing from skills problems to applied and theoretical problems-to encourage students to think about and practice the concepts until they achieve mastery. In the 14th SI Edition, the authors added new exercises throughout, many geometric in nature.

· Writing exercises placed throughout the text ask students to explore and explain a variety of calculus concepts and applications. In addition, the end of each chapter contains a list of questions for students to review and summarize what they have learned. Many of these exercises make good writing assignments.

· Technology exercises (marked with a T) are included in each section, asking students to use the calculator or computer when solving the problems. In addition, Computer Explorations give the option of assigning exercises that require a computer algebra system (CAS, such as Maple or Mathematica).



Support a complete understanding of calculus for students at varying levels

· Each major topic is developed with both simple and more advanced examples to give the basic ideas and illustrate deeper concepts.

· UPDATED! Figures are conceived and rendered to provide insight for students and support conceptual reasoning. In the 14th SI Edition, new figures are added to enhance understanding and graphics are revised throughout to emphasize clear visualization.

· ENHANCED! Annotations within examples (shown in blue type) guide students through the problem solution and emphasize that each step in a mathematical argument is rigorously justified. For the 14th SI Edition, many more annotations were added.

· End-of-chapter materials include review questions, practice exercises covering the entire chapter, and a series of Additional and Advanced Exercises with more challenging or synthesizing problems.





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· NEW! A full suite of Interactive Figures has been added to support teaching and learning. The figures illustrate key concepts and allow manipulation. They have been designed to be used in lecture as well as by students independently. Videos that use the Interactive Figures to explain key concepts are included. The figures are editable using the freely available GeoGebra software. The figures were created by Marc Renault (Shippensburg University), Steve Phelps (University of Cincinnati), Kevin Hopkins (Southwest Baptist University), and Tim Brzezinski (Berlin High School, CT).

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Assess student understanding of concepts and skills through a wide range of exercises

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