Calculus for Biology and Medicine (2nd Edition) |  | Author: Claudia Neuhauser
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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ISBN: 0130455164
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
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Publication Date: June 9, 2003
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This volume teaches calculus in the biology context without compromising the level of regular calculus. The material is organized in the standard way and explains how the different concepts are logically related. Each new concept is typically introduced with a biological example; the concept is then developed without the biological context and then the concept is tied into additional biological examples. This allows readers to first see why a certain concept is important, then lets them focus on how to use the concepts without getting distracted by applications, and then, once readers feel more comfortable with the concepts, it revisits the biological applications to make sure that they can apply the concepts. The book features exceptionally detailed, step-by-step, worked-out examples and a variety of problems, including an unusually large number of word problems. The volume begins with a preview and review and moves into discrete time models, sequences, and difference equations, limits and continuity, differentiation, applications of differentiation, integration techniques and computational methods, differential equations, linear algebra and analytic geometry, multivariable calculus, systems of differential equations and probability and statistics.
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 Calculus for biology and medicine textbook August 28, 2009
vb_mike (adrian, mi)
Wonderful review in the first chapter of previous concepts and principles. We're only in chapter one (semester just started) but I was thrilled that it went over old material.
 Required book for course December 23, 2008
Loves to Knit (NJ, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the required book for my daughter's college course. there are better ones out there but what can you do when the prof wants to use this one?
IMO, a calc book should be about calc, not calc applied to biological sciences (as if! I'm a practicing biologist for over a quarter of a century and the calc I learned I used mainly in chemistry and physics!).
Bad Textbook - Stewart is much better December 1, 2008
Ryan E. Tsuchida
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like a few people here have said already, it's a book that is required for many calculus classes offered at UCLA. Sadly, this book, while intended to be geared towards Life Science majors, is poorly written and it appears that the writers were very lazy.
I first took calculus in High School and we used the Stewart 5th edition. That book was great and I know a few classes at UCLA (mostly the 30 series) uses that book. The 3 series at UCLA however, uses the Neuhauser book instead.
1. The Neuhauser book has many questions with incorrect answers in the back of the book.
2. Many of the practice questions are exactly the same with simply a number (like a coefficient) changed. This doesn't help you learn, but it reminds me of elementary school.
3. While it may not be applicable to this review, it is worth noting that many of the problems in the solution book are a) also wrong or b) not worked out completely or at all. This means that many times the answer in the solutions manual was same work (aka only the answer) in the back of the book. Regardless of how intuitive the math may be - I believe that the role of the solution manual is to unambiguously work all problems out in their entirety.
Since all the pages were numbered correctly and isn't the first edition (I can't imagine what that was like -- I apologize for my cynicism.) I will give it two stars, but it is hardly deserving.
Because I felt that this book was so inadequate, I also bought a used version of the Stewart Calculus book for reference. I suggest you do, too; it's a great book and may just help you actually understand the material!
 this book sucks June 5, 2008
wee
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
had to endure a year of calculus at UCLA with this book... Good thing i had my brother's old Calculus books which were like 20 years old but still way better written than this piece of junk.
It doesnt explain stuff well enough and also has pretty difficult problems...
not THAT bad February 12, 2008
KRic (Milan, NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is only in its second edition and with a few more revisions it has the potential to be a very nice text. The editors need to clean up the errors in the solutions, revisit the example problems and include more applied problems in the problem section. What I like about this text is the manner in which the topics are presented to an applied audience. Limits are presented after a nice discussion of sequences giving students a less abstract notion of a difficult concept. I also like how the later chapters work up to solving systems of differential equations which are very useful for modeling biological systems. I agree that the text needs work, however, I don't think it is as bad as others have stated.
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