Advanced Calculus

A Geometric View

James J. Callahan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

526 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-4070-7 (ISBN)

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A half-century ago, advanced calculus was a well-de?ned subject at the core of the undergraduate mathematics curriulum. The classic texts of Taylor [19], Buck [1], Widder [21], and Kaplan [9], for example, show some of the ways it was approached. Over time, certain aspects of the course came to be seen as more signi?cant—those seen as giving a rigorous foundation to calculus—and they - came the basis for a new course, an introduction to real analysis, that eventually supplanted advanced calculus in the core. Advanced calculus did not, in the process, become less important, but its role in the curriculum changed. In fact, a bifurcation occurred. In one direction we got c- culus on n-manifolds, a course beyond the practical reach of many undergraduates; in the other, we got calculus in two and three dimensions but still with the theorems of Stokes and Gauss as the goal. The latter course is intended for everyone who has had a year-long introduction to calculus; it often has a name like Calculus III. In my experience, though, it does not manage to accomplish what the old advancedcalculus course did. Multivariable calculusnaturallysplits intothreeparts:(1)severalfunctionsofonevariable,(2)one function of several variables, and (3) several functions of several variables. The ?rst two are well-developed in Calculus III, but the third is really too large and varied to be treated satisfactorily in the time remaining at the end of a semester. To put it another way: Green’s theorem ?ts comfortably; Stokes’ and Gauss’ do not.

James J. Callahan is currently a professor of mathematics at Smith College. His previous Springer book is entitled The Geometry of Spacetime: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity. He was director of the NSF-funded Five College Calculus Project and a coauthor of Calculus in Context.

Starting Points.- Geometry of Linear Maps.- Approximations.- The Derivative.- Inverses.- Implicit Functions.- Critical Points.- Double Integrals.- Evaluating Double Integrals.- Surface Integrals.- Stokes’ Theorem.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 526 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
Schlagworte	Algebra • Calculus • change of variables formula • critical points • Derivative • derivative as linear approximation • differential equation • Green's Theorem • implicit functions • inverse function theorem • Morse's lemma • parametrized surfaces • Riemann and Darboux integrals • Stokes' theorem • surface integrals
ISBN-10	1-4939-4070-8 / 1493940708
ISBN-13	978-1-4939-4070-7 / 9781493940707
Zustand	Neuware