New Text....

We will be changing the text for the fall 2009 and beyond semesters for the courses 110.108-9 Calculus I-II (Phys. Sci. & Eng.). The old text was the red book at left: "Single Variable Essential Calculus" by James Stewart (ISBN-13: 9780495109556).

The new text comes from the same author, and is really simply the expanded version of the same material. It is "Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals" (ISBN-13: 9780495011699).

The summer courses will continue to use the old text. Sorry for the inconvenience. This new choice will be stable for a while, we believe.

Essential Calculus Environment

To all interested: We changed our textbook for our Calculus Series for Physical Scientists and Engineers. The new text is called Single Variable Essential Calculus by James Stewart.

It is a boiled down version of the standard Stewart Calculus text and also published by Thomson Brooks/Cole. It is smaller, lighter, cheaper and not so filled with the extraneous information that fills most every text on the subject these days. I am doing Calculus II at the moment, and I find it quite concise and well developed. Any embellishments that I would like to see, I am happy to do on my own in lecture.

In fact, most of the stuff excised from the regular version of Stewart Calculus has been offloaded to the author's website http://www.stewartcalculus.com/.

I am interested in the student's reactions to the book. Please comment below on your reaction to the text. The more detail you can give, the better. If in the eyes of the students, it is a terrible book, we need to know that.

Thanx....