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James Stewart

James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are widely renowned for their mathematical precision and accuracy, clarity of exposition, and outstanding examples and problem sets. Millions of students worldwide have explored calculus through Stewart's trademark style, while instructors have turned to his approach time and time again. In the Eighth Edition of CALCULUS, Stewart continues to set the standard for the course while adding carefully revised content. The patient explanations, superb exercises, focus on problem solving, and carefully graded problem sets that have made Stewart's texts best-sellers continue to provide a strong foundation for the Eighth Edition. From the most unprepared student to the most mathematically gifted, Stewart's writing and presentation serve to enhance understanding and build confidence. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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James J. Callahan

With a fresh geometric approach that incorporates more than 250 illustrations, this textbook sets itself apart from all others in advanced calculus. Besides the classical capstones--the change of variables formula, implicit and inverse function theorems, the integral theorems of Gauss and Stokes--the text treats other important topics in differential analysis, such as Morse's lemma and the Poincaré lemma. The ideas behind most topics can be understood with just two or three variables. This invites geometric visualization; the book incorporates modern computational tools to give visualization real power. Using 2D and 3D graphics, the book offers new insights into fundamental elements of the calculus of differentiable maps, such as the role of the derivative as the local linear approximation to a map and its role in the change of variables formula for multiple integrals. The geometric theme continues with an analysis of the physical meaning of the divergence and the curl at a level of detail not found in other advanced calculus books. Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View is a textbook for undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, the physical sciences, and economics. Prerequisites are an introduction to linear algebra and multivariable calculus. There is enough material for a year-long course on advanced calculus and for a variety of semester courses--including topics in geometry. It avoids duplicating the material of real analysis. The measured pace of the book, with its extensive examples and illustrations, make it especially suitable for independent study.

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Victor Havin, Burglind Jöricke

This Ergebnisse volume is devoted to the Uncertainty Principle (UP) and it contains a collection of essays dealing with the various manifestations of this phenomenon. The authors describe different approaches to the subject, using both "real" and "complex" techniques and succeed to show the influence of the UP in some areas outside Fourier Analysis. The book is essentially self-contained and thus accessible to any graduate student acquainted with the fundamentals of Fourier, Complex and Functional Analysis. As there is no other book approaching the subject of UP in the way Havin and Joericke do in this work, this book will certainly be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of many researchers working in this field.

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Terry Shinn and Richard Whitley

This annual publication brings together articles centred around particular themes in the Sociology of the Sciences as a means of contributing to the development of a comparative, cross disciplinary understanding of the sciences. By publishing research articles from a number of perspectives and approaches on a specific topic, the Yearbook provides an opportunity for the integration of different disciplinary strategies and their interrelated development.