Vector Calculus: Edition 6

Jerrold E. Marsden

Dec 2011 · Sold by Macmillan Higher Education

About this ebook

This bestselling vector calculus text helps students gain a solid, intuitive understanding of this important subject. The book's careful contemporary balance between theory, application, and historical development, provides readers with insights into how mathematics progresses and is in turn influenced by the natural world. The new edition offers a contemporary design, an increased number of practice exercises, and content changes based on reviewer feedback, giving this classic text a modern appeal.

About the author

Jerrold E. Marsden Anthony Tromba Anthony Tromba is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.S. from Cornell University, and his M.A. and Ph.D, from Princeton University. His research interests are in the applications of ideas in global nonlinear analysis to various problems in analysis and topology. His research has been honored by an invitation to address The International Congress of Mathematicians. Professor Tromba has been Ordinarius Professor at The Ludwigs Maximillians University, Munich, A Visiting Member of The Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, and A Research Group Leader at The Max Planck Institute, Bonn. He has authored, or co-authored over nine books, two of which, including Vector Calculus, have been translated into multiple languages.