Synopses & Reviews
When you need just the essentials of calculus, this Easy Outlines book is there to help If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview of calculus, its got to be Schaum's Easy Outline. This book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its Schaums Outline cousin, with an emphasis on clarity and conciseness.
Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give you quick pointers to the essentials.
- Perfect if you have missed class or need extra review
- Gives you expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
- So small and light that it fits in your backpack!
Topics include: Functions, Sequences, Limits, and Continuity, Differentiation, Maxima and Minima, Differentiation of Special Functions, The Law of the Mean, Indeterminate Forms, Differentials, and Curve Sketching, Fundamental Integration Techniques and Applications, The Definite Integral, Plane Areas by Integration, Improper Integrals, Differentiation Formulas for Common Mathematical Functions, Integration Formulas for Common Mathematical Functions
About the Author
Frank Ayres, Jr., Ph.D. (deceased) was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the coauthor of Schaums Outline of Calculus, Schaums Outline of Trigonometry, and Schaums Outline of Mathematics.
Elliott Mendelson (Roslyn, NY) is Professor of Mathematics at Queens College, CUNY. He is the coauthor of Schaums Outline of Calculus and author of Schaums Outline of Beginning Calculus.
Table of Contents
1. Functions, Sequences, Limits, and Continuity; 2. Differentiation; 3. Maxima and Minima; 4. Differentiation of Special Functions; 5. The Law of the Mean, Indeterminate Forms, Differentials, and Curve Sketching; 6. Fundamental Integration Techniques and Applications; 7. The Definite Integral, Plane Areas by Integration, Improper Integrals; Appendix A: Differentiation Formulas for Common Mathematical Functions; Appendix B: Integration Formulas for Common Mathematical Functions; Index