Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 2/e (Hardcover)

This book is for instructors who think that most calculus textbooks are too long. In writing the book, James Stewart asked himself: What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Second Edition, offers a concise approach to teaching calculus that focuses on major concepts, and supports those concepts with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. The book is only 900 pages--two-thirds the size of Stewart's other calculus texts, and yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity primarily by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the book's website, www.StewartCalculus.com. Despite the more compact size, the book has a modern flavor, covering technology and incorporating material to promote conceptual understanding, though not as prominently as in Stewart's other books. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS features the same attention to detail, eye for innovation, and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewart's textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.

這本書是為那些認為大部分微積分教科書太冗長的教師而寫的。在撰寫這本書時，詹姆斯·斯圖爾特問自己：對於科學家和工程師的三學期微積分課程來說，什麼是必要的？《基礎微積分：早期超越函數》，第二版，提供了一種簡潔的教授微積分的方法，重點放在主要概念上，並通過精確的定義、耐心的解釋和精心分級的問題來支持這些概念。這本書只有900頁，是斯圖爾特其他微積分教科書的三分之二大小，但幾乎包含了相同的主題。作者主要通過縮短敘述和將一些功能放在書的網站www.StewartCalculus.com上來實現相對簡短。儘管體積更小，但這本書具有現代風格，涵蓋了技術和融入了促進概念理解的材料，雖然不像斯圖爾特的其他書籍那樣突出。《基礎微積分：早期超越函數》具有同樣注重細節、創新眼光和精確度的特點，這些特點使斯圖爾特的教科書成為全球銷量最高的微積分教科書。