Calculus 2 Simplified - by Oscar E Fernandez (Paperback)

About the Book

"The companion to Fernandez's successful Calculus Simplified, completing a full year of accessible, personalized support for college calculus Calculus is both beautiful and useful. Its usefulness has made it the subject of core service courses that must deliver, in a limited time, an extraordinary amount and range of material: new fundamental concepts and abstract objects; particular realizations of the new objects, each with specific behavior; and precise techniques of manipulation and calculation. All of this is packed into courses and textbooks in a way that, to students, can entangle the fundamental and the particular. A student who is struggling can't tell whether they aren't grasping the fundamentals or are unfamiliar with specific facts or need more practice with common techniques. In this resource for students, Oscar Fernandez helps them to unpick the tangle. He reduces attention to the core of Calculus 2: techniques and applications of integration; sequences and series; and applications of integration to sequences and series. This clear focus gives him the space to build intuition-what's going on and why we care-as motivation for the increasing load of facts and techniques. As a result, students gain a solid understanding of the material while recovering the beauty and power of the subject. As with his previous book, Calculus Simplified, this clarified approach to the material is supplemented with hundreds of worked examples, hundreds of exercises (with answers), dynamic and interactive online content, and video examples and explainers"--

Book Synopsis

From the author of Calculus Simplified, an accessible, personalized approach to Calculus 2

Second-semester calculus is rich with insights into the nature of infinity and the very foundations of geometry, but students can become overwhelmed as they struggle to synthesize the range of material covered in class. Oscar Fernandez provides a "Goldilocks approach" to learning the mathematics of integration, infinite sequences and series, and their applications--the right depth of insights, the right level of detail, and the freedom to customize your student experience. Learning calculus should be an empowering voyage, not a daunting task. Calculus 2 Simplified gives you the flexibility to choose your calculus adventure, and the right support to help you master the subject.

• Provides an accessible, user-friendly introduction to second-semester college calculus
• The unique customizable approach enables students to begin first with integration (traditional) or with sequences and series (easier)
• Chapters are organized into mini lessons that focus first on developing the intuition behind calculus, then on conceptual and computational mastery
• Features more than 170 solved examples that guide learning and more than 400 exercises, with answers, that help assess understanding
• Includes optional chapter appendixes
• Comes with supporting materials online, including video tutorials and interactive graphs

About the Author

Oscar E. Fernandez is professor of mathematics at Wellesley College. He is the author of Calculus Simplified; The Calculus of Happiness: How a Mathematical Approach to Life Adds Up to Health, Wealth, and Love; and Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (all Princeton).