Discover an accessible and easy-to-use guide to calculus fundamentals
In
Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 3rd Edition, a team of expert MIT educators delivers a hands-on and practical handbook to essential calculus concepts and terms. The author explores calculus techniques and applications, showing readers how to immediately implement the concepts discussed within to help solve real-world problems.
In the book, readers will find:
- An accessible introduction to the basics of differential and integral calculus
- An interactive self-teaching guide that offers frequent questions and practice problems with solutions.
- A format that enables them to monitor their progress and gauge their knowledge
This latest edition provides new sections, rewritten introductions, and worked examples that demonstrate how to apply calculus concepts to problems in physics, health sciences, engineering, statistics, and other core sciences.
Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 3rd Edition is an invaluable resource for students and lifelong learners hoping to strengthen their foundations in calculus.
About the Authors
Daniel Kleppner (Belmont, MA) is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and Director Emeritus of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science in 2006, the 2007 Frederic Ives Medal, the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal, and the 2017 American Physical Society Career Achievement Award. Together with Norman Ramsey, he authored
Quick Calculus. Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular introductory mechanics textbook for advanced students.
Peter Andrew Dourmashkin (Cambridge, MA) is a Senior Lecturer at MIT that has taught in the Physics Department, and at a variety of specialized programs at MIT including the Experimental Study Group, Integrated Studies Program, Seminar XL and Project Interphase both of which are sponsored by the Office of Minority Education. He has been awarded the Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education and the Buechner Faculty Teaching Prize. In addition to his work developing physics courses at MIT, he assisted Professor Eric Mazur (Harvard University) in writing a first-year introductory physics textbook published in 2014.
