Essential Calculus

About this book

This book is a response to those instructors who feel that calculus textbooks are too big. In writing the book James Stewart asked himself: What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? Stewarts ESSENTIAL CALCULUS offers a concise approach to teaching calculus focusing on major concepts and supporting those with precise definitions patient explanations and carefully graded problems. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS is about two-thirds the size of Stewarts other calculus texts (Calculus Fifth Edition and Calculus Early Transcendentals Fifth Edition) and yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity mainly by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the web site www.stewartcalculus.com. Despite the reduced size of the book there is still a modern flavor: Conceptual understanding and technology are not neglected though they are not as prominent as in Stewarts other books. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS has been written with the same attention to detail eye for innovation and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewarts textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.