C. Bryan Dawson – författare

Calculus Set Free: Infinitesimals to the Rescue is a single-variable calculus textbook that incorporates the use of infinitesimal methods. The procedures used throughout make many of the calculations simpler and the concepts clearer for undergraduate students, heightening success and easing a significant burden of entry into STEM disciplines.This text features a student-friendly exposition with ample marginal notes, examples, illustrations, and more. The exercises include a wide range of difficulty levels, stretching from very simple "rapid response" questions to the occasional exercise meant to test knowledge. While some exercises require the use of technology to work through, none are dependent on any specific software. The answers to odd-numbered exercises in the back of the book include both simplified and non-simplified answers, hints, or alternative answers.Throughout the text, notes in the margins include comments meant to supplement understanding, sometimes including line-by-line commentary for worked examples. Without sacrificing academic rigor, Calculus Set Free offers an engaging style that helps students to solidify their understanding on difficult theoretical calculus.

Calculus Set Free: Infinitesimals to the Rescue is a single-variable calculus textbook that incorporates the use of infinitesimal methods. The procedures used throughout make many of the calculations simpler and the concepts clearer for undergraduate students, heightening success and easing a significant burden of entry into STEM disciplines.This text features a student-friendly exposition with ample marginal notes, examples, illustrations, and more. The exercises include a wide range of difficulty levels, stretching from very simple "rapid response" questions to the occasional exercise meant to test knowledge. While some exercises require the use of technology to work through, none are dependent on any specific software. The answers to odd-numbered exercises in the back of the book include both simplified and non-simplified answers, hints, or alternative answers.Throughout the text, notes in the margins include comments meant to supplement understanding, sometimes including line-by-line commentary for worked examples. Without sacrificing academic rigor, Calculus Set Free offers an engaging style that helps students to solidify their understanding on difficult theoretical calculus.

A sequel to the author's previous book, Calculus Set Free: Infinitesimals to the Rescue, this text explores all the key topics of multivariable calculus using infinitesimal methods. These recently developed infinitesimal procedures, based on the approximation relation, simplify limit-based computations and make many concepts more intuitive and accessible.Limit-based computations utilize infinitesimals, simplifying computations and making a wider variety of limits accessible. Definitions of double integrals, triple integrals, line integrals, and surface integrals, as well as related geometric and physical applications, are based on infinitely many subintervals (or subregions) of infinitesimal size, resulting more clearly in a sum and simplifying definitions. Local linearity is captured in an easily understood approximation formula, demystifying the use of straight objects instead of curved objects when developing integration formulas. Throughout the text, abundant use of diagrams aids the development of visual intuition and understanding. Exercise sets provide ample practice, ranging from the simple to the straightforward to the more interesting and exploratory, appropriate for a wide range of abilities. Notes in the margins include comments meant to supplement understanding, including line-by-line commentary for many worked examples.For the benefit of readers with no prior experience with infinitesimals, a review chapter is also included with a full explanation of infinitesimals, approximation, and single-variable calculus using these methods, setting the stage for their use in multivariable calculus. Without sacrificing academic rigor, Multivariable Calculus Set Free offers an engaging, storytelling style that helps readers solidify their understanding of an otherwise difficult subject, written by an author with over three decades of experience working with calculus students.