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 Excellent in depth treatment of multi-variable calculus January 27, 2010
This text gives a much deeper treatment than what is found in the typical undergraduate textbook for Calc I, II, and III. I would recommend it especially for engineers and physicists who want a much deeper understanding of multivariable calculus without necessarily learning to prove everything, and I would recommend it for advanced math students who want to build some more intuition about calculus before trying to plow through a basic analysis text like Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis.
 It is Advanced Calculus. August 9, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First let me set the context of the review. I am not a math whiz kid. I have a very strong interest in mathematics I just don't have the facility that I have seen in others.
Now that being said I used this book as an upper level undergarduate course in Advanced Calculus. The book expects a lot of mathematical maturity and did not offer any real insights to me. As a consequence I did find myself having to constantly refer to other calculus texts to get an understanding of what Kaplan was explaining. As a resource for learning Advanced Calculus and gaining insight I find it useless, though it is quite useful as a reference.
great for engineering and non-theoretical science majors November 28, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Excellent service! January 3, 2007
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
Book was just as described. I am very satisfied. Fast service even I am in Mexico.
Excellent in-depth book July 24, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have used the earlier edition of Kaplan's excellent text on Advanced calculus from early 1960's...I have studied and taught this subject and I always like to refer to this book....excellent and solid foundation in advanced caluculs for any student
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