Download or read book Calculus and Its Applications written by Larry Joel Goldstein and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extremely readable, highly regarded, and widely adopted text present innovative ways for applying calculus to real-world situations in the business, economics, life science, and social science disciplines. The text's straightforward, engaging approach fosters the growth of both mathematical maturity and an appreciation for the usefulness of mathematics. The authors' tried and true formula -- pairing substantial amounts of graphical analysis and informal geometric proofs with an abundance of hands-on exercizes -- has proven to be tremendously successful. Functions, derivatives, applications of the derivative, techniques of differentiations, exponential and natural logarithm functions, definite integral, variables, trigonometric functions, integration, differential equations, Taylor polynomials and probability. For individuals interested in an introduction to calculus applications.