Single Variable Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals

About this book

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? SINGLE VARIABLE 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 600 pages--two-fifths the size of Stewarts other calculus texts (CALCULUS Seventh Edition and CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS Seventh Edition) 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 books 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 Stewarts other books. SINGLE VARIABLE ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS features the same attention to detail eye for innovation and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewarts textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.