Advanced Calculus - 4th Edition

Addison-Wesley, September 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. 4th Edition (Addison-Wesley - 1991) No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read if at all. Lightly age toned pages. No dust jacket as issued. . . . . . I learned from this book during my sophomore year advanced calculus class. The best thing about this book -- answers to all the problems are included. What a novel idea -- answers! I can't speak for others, but I can still remember doing problem after problem from this book and knowing that I could always check my understanding, or lack understanding, of the material by checking my work against the answers. As to why do I think this book is for engineers and non-theoretical science majors? Very simple, it does *not* cover real analysis as the books by Rudin, Shilov or Johnsonbaugh and Pfaffenberger (my favorite). These other books follow a very traditional approach -- axioms, lemmas, theorems, corollaries. Kaplan's book presents all the mathematics that an engineer, etc. will typically need and with a clear explanation. You won't find delta-epsilon proofs here, but you will find multi-variate calculus, vector differential and integral calculus, orthogonal functions and expansions (Fourier series), complex variables, and ODEs and PDEs. Everything is covered. The explanations are generally very good. There are examples, and of course, answers to the problems are included. You can think of this book as a Schaum's Outline on Advanced Calculus, but with real explanations, not just statements. I'm not knocking Schaum's Outlines. I own several of them. -- M. Rumore Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.