Vector Calculus

ISBN-13: 9781032302669 / Twarda / 2024 / 668 str.

Harold Parks

Opis

A calculus book must tell the truth.This book is carefully written in the acceptedlanguageofmathematics 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.

Spis treści

 1. Vectors. 2. Vector-Valued Functions. 3. Functions of Several Variables. 4. Multiple Integrals. 5. Vector Calculus.

O autorze

Steven G. Krantz is a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He has previously taught at UCLA, Princeton University, and Pennsylvania State University. He has written more than 75 books and more than 175 scholarly papers and is the founding editor of the Journal of Geometric Analysis. An AMS Fellow, Dr. Krantz has been a recipient of the Chauvenet Prize, Beckenbach Book Award, and Kemper Prize. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Harold Parks obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oregon State University.  In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.  Parks has discovered, and characterized, a type of minimal surface with surprising properties, defined in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions.