Vector Calculus

by Steven G. Krantz, Harold Parks

2024 · CRC Press

Using meaningful examples, credible applications, and incisive technology, Vector Ca1culus strives to empower students, enhance their critical thinking skills, and equip them with the knowledge and skills to succeed in the major or discipline they ultimately choose to study. This text is intended to be a cornerstone of that process. An engaging style and clear writing make the language of mathematics accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, with a high standard for mathematical rigor. A calculus book must tell the truth. This book is carefully written in the accepted language of mathematics in a readable exposition. It includes useful and fascinating applications, acquaints students with the history of the subject, and offers a sense of what mathematics is all about. Technique is presented, yet so are ideas. The authors help students to master basic methods and discover and build their own concepts in a scientific subject. There is an emphasis on using modeling and numerical calculation. Additional features include: A Quick Quiz and Problems for Practice, Further Theory and Practice, and Calculator/Computer Exercises appear at the end of each section. All exercise sets are step laddered. A Look Back and A Look Forward help students put the ideas in context. Every chapter ends with a Genesis and Development section, giving history and perspective on key topics in the evolution of calculus. Boxed Insights clear up points or answer commonly asked questions. The text has an extra-large offering of examples. Examples are illustrated with meaningful and useful graphics. The pedagogical features make the subject more interesting and accessible to students than other texts, while maintaining an appropriate rigor. —Daniel Cunningham, CSU-Fresno This text is truly well written and organized. I do like the fact the book is quite rigorous, yet full of illustrative examples. —Bob Devaney, Boston University

Gulf War and Health

by Carolyn Fulco, Catharyn T. Liverman, Harold C. Sox

2000 · 中国法制出版社

Although the Gulf War lasted but a few days, many combat troops have suffered lingering health problems that they attribute to their wartime service. In an effort to respond to the health concerns of veterans and their families, the Department of Veterans Affairs contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the scientific evidence concerning associations between agents to which Gulf War veterans may have been exposed and adverse health effects. These are the reports from those studies.

Forestry Clubs for Young People

by B. Frank Heintzleman, Harold Scofield Betts, Harry Bruce Walker, Harry Lawrence Wilson, Marie Foote Heisley, Mary Aloysius Agnew, United States. Bureau of Biological Survey, United States. Food and Drug Administration, William White

1928

The Rio Grande National Forest is a storehouse of great natural wealth. It is an important economic factor in the welfare of the surrounding local communities. It is a public asset in which every one of its users should have a personal interest.

A Primer of Real Functions: Fourth Edition

by Ralph P. Boas, Harold P. Boas

1996 · American Mathematical Soc.

This is a revised, updated, and significantly augmented edition of a classic Carus Monograph (a bestseller for over 25 years) on the theory of functions of a real variable. Earlier editions of this classic Carus Monograph covered sets, metric spaces, continuous functions, and differentiable functions. The fourth edition adds sections on measurable sets and functions, the Lebesgue and Stieltjes integrals, and applications. The book retains the informal chatty style of the previous editions, remaining accessible to readers with some mathematical sophistication and a background in calculus. The book is, thus, suitable either for self-study or for supplemental reading in a course on advanced calculus or real analysis. Not intended as a systematic treatise, this book has more the character of a sequence of lectures on a variety of interesting topics connected with real functions. Many of these topics are not commonly encountered in undergraduate textbooks: e.g., the existence of continuous everywhere-oscillating functions (via the Baire category theorem); the universal chord theorem; two functions having equal derivatives, yet not differing by a constant; and application of Stieltjes integration to the speed of convergence of infinite series. This book recaptures the sense of wonder that was associated with the subject in its early days. It is a must for mathematics libraries.