This text was written for the one- or two-semester applied calculus course for life science students with a focus on incorporating interesting, relevant, and realistic applications. The text includes many citations from current data sources and offers many opportunities for the use of technology.
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Calculus for the Life Sciences features interesting, relevant applications that motivate students and highlight the utility of mathematics for the life sciences. This edition also features new ways to engage...
This edition also features new ways to engage students with the material, such as Your Turn exercises. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyMathLab does not come packaged with this content.
The two main goals of the text are to provide students with a thorough grounding in calculus concepts and applications, analytical techniques, and numerical methods and to have students understand how, when, and why calculus can be used to ...
With this edition, students will find new ways to help them learn the material, such as Warm-Up Exercises and added "help text" within examples.
Calculus With Applications for Life Sciences
With this edition, students will find new ways to help them learn the material, such as Warm-Up Exercises and added "help text" within examples.
Based on the best-selling Calculus and Its Applications by Marv Bittinger, this new text is appropriate for a two-semester calculus course for life science majors.
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This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version.