Calculus with Applications is a great textbook for college students from which to learn calculus. It's difficult to write a review on a textbook, especially one that covers mathematics, but as textbooks go, this one is damn good. As a college student pursuing a degree in Business, I have been exposed to materiel covering numerous disciplines. In each instance, I either grasped the subject matter immediately or struggled greatly through the rest of the semester. When taking my calculus class last Fall, I had no qualms once I bought and read through this book.

I found this textbook to be a nice approach to a sterile subject I once learned in high school. The strength of this textbook lies in its presentation of "real-life" examples, such as how calculus is used to compute both periodic and continuous compound interest. When most people hear of calculus, it might conjure up images of long algebraic computations only scientists use to find the meaning of the universe or what engineers require to build the latest nuclear reactor. What this book does is to allay those misconceptions and presents a practical approach to "real world" calculus applications. One does not need to understand astrophysics or financial reports to learn calculus. This book covers calculus theory, and as the title suggests, its application. When covering topics such as differentiation, this book will not ask dull questions such as "find the slope of the tangent at the given point on the curve...." Every math textbook is prone to these types of questions, but this text presents those types of examples only when necessary. This book is not going to make you enjoy math or make you want to run to college's Registrar's office to change your major. It will demonstrate where and how calculus is used outside of the heavy sciences. It presents material clearly, provides an applicable scenario, solves the problem, and explains the answer. And like any other math textbook, follow-up questions are included to reaffirm concepts and odd-numbered answers are provided in the back of the book to solidify understanding.

I want to stress these points: this book is focused in its approach, practical in its application, and geared toward the average college student. This text is ideal for college students who need to learn college-level mathematics and don't want to be bored by finding the volume of a cube or the area under a curve. This is not to say these subjects aren't approached and outlined, however the nature of this book is teach calculus theory without driving students into an intellectual stupor. Calculus with Applications is not a coloring book either. It requires a fundamental understanding of linear algebra, graphing theory, and logarithmic computation, to name a few. My point is: one does not need be Einstein, a Math major, or an engineer to grasp and use the concepts presented in this text or a regular basis. Whether its how to calculate mortgage costs, earnings on a savings account, the percentage of sales increase in a given year, or dare I say it, the growth rate of bacteria, any college student will find this textbook and its concepts helpful in either their academic pursuits or real-life trials.

Although it is of much help, to which the book lacks, it was disappointing to say the least. It did little to help simplify the understanding of the book; yet without it, one is much worse. If one needs to take trigonometry, this book will attempt to help, but lacks in great assistance.

Like all math books, this one is just an aid in the classroom. The main source of information is the instructor. This book has really good excersices. The layout is very clear clear. Dont listen to negative reviews, its probably their instructors

I bought the book to teach my 15 year old
son trigonometry and it is fantastic.
It has so many clear examples to illustrate
the concepts.
You can't go wrong with this book.

I absolutely agree with the review by Stephen Armstrong below. It doesn't take 50 - 100 problems for the average student to grasp a simple, basic algebraic concept. I see no reason for this book to be over 700 pages; the authors clearly ignored the need for simplicity and relevance in presenting their material. Of the several books I've used for algebra, this one has the most distracting presentation. It's hard to figure out what really matters and where the student should focus. And it's hard to discern how the concepts presented relate to each other. It seems that in the authors' desire to be thorough, they lost perspective.

After having completed a course in Beginning Algebra, the next textbook, Intermediate Algebra really smoothed everything out. The topics it covers are basically quite the same as Beginning Algebra (same author), but it goes into deeper depth that are peasy to pick up (especially with the examples in the start of each section). One thing I particularly like about Lial and Hornsby mathematics textbooks are the summaries they provide at the end of each chapter you complete. They give a concept covered in the chapter, a couple of examples, and therefore serve as a revision page before a test or exam.

This is a terrific book. It makes me feel that I shouldn't bother to attend my math class in school. The book explains concepts clearly. You don't even need a mentor. You can manage the book all by yourself, for the book itself is your teacher, your mentor. There is an abundance of exercises for you to practise. They never run out of it. It makes you feel that math is fun. It is the simply the best way to learn math. The best part of the book is the review after every chapter. I can learn back whatever I've missed. I'm an 8th grader only, but I can still manage the 2nd year of high school algebra. The book has helped a lot. The book is perfect for talented 8th graders.

The book is decent. But is not a great text book. It's highlihgted formulas, etc... are very helpful, but it doesn't seem to explain a lot of things in a way to make them easily understandable. I have used many different math books, and I would not use this one unless you are teaaching extremely bright students.

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I am in the midst of taking the third in a succession of algebra courses using this particular series of textbooks. This book, by far, surpasses the others in difficulty of use! Many of the illustrations seem to have little or no bearing upon the problems given and the explanations can be obscure at best. The book is also poorly edited making matters even worse. If you have never before experienced the height of frustration, I would recommend this book as a means of getting there. The sad part is that I really wanted to like algebra and this book has made it almost impossible.

This is the third algebra class I've taken and I received an A on my other two classes. Using this textbook, I'll be fortunate to pass. The problems are not explained well, there are not examples for every type of problem, the review problems and test at the end of each chapter do not having the corresponding section from which they were taken. The way the authors explain problems are different from what I was taught before. Given a choice, I would not buy this textbook. I have to go to my intermediate text by a different author and even that doesn't help much.

This book will leave you dazed and confused if you don't have a lot of mathematical background. The authors assume that you already know everything about algebra and don't really explain certain things or steps that you need to take to get a certain answer. In order to completely understand this book you need the intermediate algebra book that has been written by almost all the same authors... If you don't use the intermediate algebra book as a reference you'll just be dazed and confused!

Pray that you have a good instructor. The only thing I dislike about my instructor is that she picked this book to use!!!!! If you have a good College Algebra book, I suggest you use it for clearer examples. That's the only thing getting me through at the moment. This book as good as sold (to the next sucker) when this class is over!

This worthless text, Mathematics with Applications, is certainly the most frustrating book I have ever encountered. In addition, the text is also unclear, and needless to say, unhelpful when it comes to explaining (and understanding) the solutions given for the equation(s). I am very dissatisfied, truly dissapointed, certainly aggravated and furious about this book, the author(s) and the fact that other campuses utilize it. I wish you luck if your class requires you to use this text; perhaps the only thing that could help you through such lesson is an excellent instructor; otherwise, forget about it. This text is not even worth your time, money, effort, and not even a rate of one star.

The text Mathematics with Applications was one of the worst books I have ever encountered. One of the many problems I experienced when using this text, was the authors inability to give adequate examples of the concepts. The example given in the heading of the sections are not clear, the authors fail to show simple ways to obtain the correct answers. Another weak area in the text was the lack of repetition in each section, ex: sect.14.3 Antiderivatives; the authors will provide problem 1 that requires a certain step to obtain the correct answer (verifiable in the back of the book) Problem #2 the student is left astray, problem #3 will introduce another aspect unlike problem 1 or 2. Learning is developed by practicing a concept on more than one or two problems. By using this text learning the actual concept of calculas throughly will not happen. Calculas is a challenging field and an introductory text should to have an excellent source of examples,clear and concise explanations, and sections with at least 3+ problems with the same concept to assist the new student with practice. This text is also sold with a study guide that is the answer log in the back of the book enlarged and packaged to assist the financial advancement of everyone except for the student. Advice to the buyer, "Don't judge a book by it's cover"

It almost seems as if the authors of the book couldn't work their own problems. i have no idea how they choose which problems they do-- they only do the odd-numbered problems, and even not many of those! They don't explain each step, only referring you back to the textbook, which itself is useless and incomprehensible.

Don't bother.