Calculus: A Modeling and Computational Thinking Approach
Stade, Elisabeth / Stade, Eric![Calculus: A Modeling and Computational Thinking Approach](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/442/44276944/CHSBZCOP0344276944.jpg)
This book is intended for a first-semester course in calculus, which begins by posing a question: how do we model an epidemic mathematically? The authors use this question as a natural motivation for the study of calculus and as a context through which central calculus notions can be understood intuitively. The book¿s approach to calculus is contextual and based on the principle that calculus is motivated and elucidated by its relevance to the...