Multivariable Calculus (3^rd Ed.)

For 3- to 4-semester courses covering single-variable and multivariable calculus, taken by students of mathematics, engineering, natural sciences, or economics.

The most successful new calculus text in the last two decades

The much-anticipated 3rd Edition of Briggs? Calculus Series retains its hallmark features while introducing important advances and refinements. Briggs, Cochran, Gillett, and Schulz build from a foundation of meticulously crafted exercise sets, then draw students into the narrative through writing that reflects the voice of the instructor. Examples are stepped out and thoughtfully annotated, and figures are designed to teach rather than simply supplement the narrative. The groundbreaking eBook contains approximately 700 Interactive Figures that can be manipulated to shed light on key concepts.

For the 3rd Edition, the authors synthesized feedback on the text and MyLab? Math content from over 140 instructors and an Engineering Review Panel. This thorough and extensive review process, paired with the authors? own teaching experiences, helped create a text that was designed for today?s calculus instructors and students.

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About our authors

William Briggs has been on the mathematics faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver for 23 years. He received his BA in mathematics from the University of Colorado and his MS and PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses throughout the mathematics curriculum, with a special interest in mathematical modeling and differential equations as it applies to problems in the biosciences. He has written a quantitative reasoning textbook, Using and Understanding Mathematics; an undergraduate problem solving book, Ants, Bikes, and Clocks; and two tutorial monographs, The Multigrid Tutorial and The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform. He is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Vice President for Education, a University of Colorado President's Teaching Scholar, a recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland.

Lyle Cochran is a professor of mathematics at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He holds BS degrees in mathematics and mathematics education from Oregon State University and a MS and PhD in mathematics from Washington State University. He has taught a wide variety of undergraduate mathematics courses at Washington State University, Fresno Pacific University, and since 1995 at Whitworth University. His expertise is in mathematical analysis, and he has a special interest in the integration of technology and mathematics education. He has written technology materials for leading calculus and linear algebra textbooks including the Instructor's Mathematica Manual for Linear Algebra and Its Applications by David C. Lay an

Hallmark features of this title

• Figures are based on the authors' experiences with students who learn better once they are able to visualize concepts. Whenever possible, the figures communicate essential ideas using annotations reminiscent of an instructor's voice in class.
• Annotated Worked Examples guide students through the process of a solution and show that each step in a mathematical argument is rigorously justified.
  • Annotations are designed to echo how instructors talk through examples in lecture.
  • They also help students who may struggle with the algebra and trigonometry steps within the solution process.
• Quick Check Questions throughout encourage students to do the calculus as they are reading about it, and resemble the type of questions instructors pose in class.