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Title: Brief Calculus: The Study of Rates of Change by Bill Armstrong, Don Davis, Matthew Hudock, Denyse Kerr, Jamie Smolko ISBN: 0-13-085882-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $32.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Called "Brief" for a reason
Comment: I used this book during my freshmen year of college and I later found that this book lacks a lot of calculus material found in many other books. Here are my complaints:

1. There is no trigonometry whatsoever (derivatives, integrations, etc.) in this text. Trig is an integral (no pun intended) part of calculus (that's why it's often referred to as "pre-calc.")

2. Only 8 chapters. Some of the lacking topics in the book are volume/area by rotation, infinite series, vectors, and l'Hopital's rule.

So as I'm not a total whiner, here are some nice features:

1. Book is written through an applied approach, so it is easy for the reader to learn applications of material.

2. Examples in each section point to a specific exercise given in the problems portion of the section.

As I said, lots and lots of applications, but the price paid for that is a lacking of thorough and necessary topics in calculus.