This text helps students foster computational skills and intuitiveunderstanding with a careful balance of theory applications and optionalmaterials. This editio... » 

This text helps students foster computational skills and intuitiveunderstanding with a careful balance of theory applications and optionalmaterials. This edition offers revised coverage in several areas and a newsection looking at applications to differential geometry physics and forms oflife as well as a large number of new exercises and expansion of the bookshistorical notes which help students understand how calculus evolved byprofiling important mathematicians. With its contemporary balance betweentheory application and historical development the fifth edition gives aninsight into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by thenatural world. «