Cover: Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable, 2nd Edition by Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda

Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable

Second Edition  ©2019 Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda Formats: Achieve, E-book, Print

Authors

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    Michael Sullivan

    Michael Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Chicago State University, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Before retiring, Mike taught at Chicago State for 35 years, where he honed an approach to teaching and writing that forms the foundation for his textbooks. Mike has been writing for more than 35 years and currently has 15 books in print. His books have been awarded both Texty and McGuffey awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA). In 2007, he received the TAA Lifetime Achievement Award. Mike is a member of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges, the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.

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    Kathleen Miranda

    Kathleen Miranda, Ed.D from St. John’s University, is an Emeritus Associate Professor of the State University of New York (SUNY), where she taught for 25 years. Kathleen is a recipient of the prestigious New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she particularly enjoys teaching mathematics to underprepared and fearful students. Kathleen served as director of Curriculum and Assessment Development at Old Westbury. In addition to her extensive classroom experience, Kathleen has worked as accuracy reviewer and solutions author on several mathematics textbooks, including Michael Sullivan’s Brief Calculus and Finite Mathematics. Kathleen’s goal is to help students unlock the complexities of calculus and appreciate its many applications.

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Authors

  • Headshot of Michael Sullivan

    Michael Sullivan

    Michael Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Chicago State University, received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Before retiring, Mike taught at Chicago State for 35 years, where he honed an approach to teaching and writing that forms the foundation for his textbooks. Mike has been writing for more than 35 years and currently has 15 books in print. His books have been awarded both Texty and McGuffey awards from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA). In 2007, he received the TAA Lifetime Achievement Award. Mike is a member of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges, the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.

  • Headshot of Kathleen Miranda

    Kathleen Miranda

    Kathleen Miranda, Ed.D from St. John’s University, is an Emeritus Associate Professor of the State University of New York (SUNY), where she taught for 25 years. Kathleen is a recipient of the prestigious New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she particularly enjoys teaching mathematics to underprepared and fearful students. Kathleen served as director of Curriculum and Assessment Development at Old Westbury. In addition to her extensive classroom experience, Kathleen has worked as accuracy reviewer and solutions author on several mathematics textbooks, including Michael Sullivan’s Brief Calculus and Finite Mathematics. Kathleen’s goal is to help students unlock the complexities of calculus and appreciate its many applications.

Table of Contents

Product Updates

ACHIEVE FOR CALCULUS

Achieve focuses on engaging students through pre-class and post-class assessment, interactive activities, and a full e-book. Achieve is a complete learning environment with easy course setup, gradebook and LMS integration.

  • The easy-to-use Homework Math Palette adapts its front page to the content of the problem, bringing forward the most appropriate buttons. This helps students focus on the math rather than the format.
  • Homework Warnings: Our propriety grading algorithm conbines our homegrown parser and the computer algebra system, SymPy. It is programed to accept every valid equivalent answer and to trigger warnings for answers entered in an incorrect format.
  • Targeted Feedback ensures the focus is on learning.
  • Detailed Solutions: Setailed step-by-step solutions ensure students learn from a problem when they answer correctly or give up.
  • Guided Learn and Practice assignments include interactive content, videos, and instructional feedback to prepare students before they come to class.
  • Guided Learn and Practice Assignments contain CalcClips tutorial videos are integrated throughout the e-book.
  • Dynamic Figures powered by Desmos, take students experience further with conceptual and computational questions about the interactive Dynamic Figures. These book-specific figures are embedded directly in the e-book and additional assessment for the figures are found in the Guided Learn and Practice question banks.
  • LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses.

 

As educators we understand the challenges you face in this course, and as authors we have crafted a text that gives you the tools to meet them. This book has examples with clear explanations to help you learn how to logically solve mathematics problems. Read and work the examples and do the suggested NOW WORK Problems listed after them. Take advantage of the book’s many features to help you to master calculus. Whether you are majoring in life sciences, business or economics, engineering or mathematics, this book has many applied exercises—some written by students like you—related to courses in a wide variety of majors. And a robust online support system includes a suite of easy-to-use and powerfully built learning tools, which include stepped-out examples, video tutorials, interactive figures, assessment quizzes, and hundreds of practice exercises with feedback and solutions.

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