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	Multivariable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts (with Tools for Enriching Calculus, Interactive Video ... James Stewart Brooks Cole, 2004 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Stewart's MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS, THIRD EDITION offers a streamlined approach to teaching calculus, focusing on major concepts and supporting those with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS: CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS is highly regarded because it has successfully brought peace to departments that were split between reform and traditional approaches to teaching calculus. Not only does the text help reconcile the two schools of thought by skillfully merging the best of traditional calculus with the best of the reform movement, it does so with innovation and meticulous accuracy.

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Excellent textbook but ...

This really is an excellent presentation of multivarible calculus! The "but..." in the review title relates to two facts:

1. I bought the book new for $45 only a few weeks ago through Amazon and
2. The book is actually the last six chapters of Stewart's larger "Calculus : Concepts and Contexts" (2nd edition, I think - the one going for around $139). So, if you're hell-bent on buying this book at the $100 plus price, you'd be better of just getting the full version. More bang for your buck!

Anyway, I have quite a few calculus texbooks at various levels of sophistication and this one is quickly stealing my heart. I'm finding that Stewart's manner of presentation and the chosen examples, problems, solutions, and graphics, are all well designed toward the end that students actually understand the beautiful "concepts and context" that form the soul of this magnificent subject. For what it's worth, I've found it fairly easy to take this book's material and plug it into Mathematica to play and poke and mess around in order to get an even more intimate and graphical feel for it (though no Mathematica notebooks are actually provided with this textbook). A solutions manual by Don Clagg is available here at Amazon (which I haven't recieved yet) and there's also available a LabCalc series of resources for various math programs such as Mathematica and Maple that are built specifically for this textbook.

OK - have fun, but don't fork out $133 or whatever it currently costs. I think maybe someone at Amazon or the publisher screwed up with the new pricing.

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Not bad at all

First off, I must say that before buying this book I had already taken a Multivariable Calculus class at a community college with the Larson Multivariable Calculus book. I didn't pass it with the grade that I wanted so I took it again at my current University. Although the larson book is very student friendly as an introduction, the Stewart Multivariable book was surprisingly well written. I had experienced other stewart books that were not well written for a student that is barely learning the material, but this one is. Many examples and problems in this book help you really understand what you are doing along with many good proofs that were lacking in the larson book. Along with the student solution manual, this book will teach you well the concepts of an already difficult subject.

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Excellent

It's true that this particular item only contains chapters eight through thirteen, selected appendices, and accompanying solutions. I also have the single variable calculus book from Stewart, and I have to say that this is the best set of texts I have for learning calculus. There are very few errors, and the examples are very clear. The problems at the end of every section range in difficulty from easy to somewhat difficult, and with an accompanying solutions manual, you too can master calculus. :D

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James Stewart writes a great math text book. as a mathematics/physics student i highly recommend it. It provides thoughtful examples and definitions. not as theoretical as a math student may crave, though. it does not explore the uses and idea of Affine approximations, and tends to teach you how to use something only, without deriving and contributing to a students mathematical prowess. for undergrads its the best, for review its second to none. but for deeper analysis of the manipulations and nature of functions in of multivariate calculus, you may want to consider a classic like "calculus of vector functions" by richard crowell (3rd edition is the ONLY edition you should consider buying).

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Excellent multivariable calc text

My Harvard multivariable calculus class used this book and this book was quite helpful. It is quickly becoming a standard for non-rigorous, introductory multivariable calculus and rightly so.

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