Calculus (8/e)

这本被无数读者反复提及的《Calculus》(8th Edition)，真正的价值不在公式本身，而在它如何把抽象的定理「讲清楚」。不少读者反馈：同济版里含糊带过的概念，在这里能找到清晰的解释路径；从单变量到多变量微积分的过渡，它提供了更平滑的台阶。令人意外的是，书中傅立叶变换与声音联系的那一章，被评价为「绝了」——这正是它区别于纯理论教材的地方：让数学回到可感知的现实。当然也有清醒的声音指出它与经典教材「本质区别不大」，提醒读者不必神化。它适合那些愿意啃、也值得被好好引导的初学者，尤其是社科背景、需要一本解释详实而非堆砌定理的书。

James Stewart received the M.S. degree from Stanford University and the Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London, he became Professor of Mathematics at McMaster University. His research has been in harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Stewart’s books include a series of high school textbooks as well as a best-selling series of calculus textbooks. He is also co-author, with Lothar Redlin and Saleem Watson, of a series of college algebra and precalculus textbooks. Translations of his books include those in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Greek, and Indonesian. A talented violinst, Stewart was concertmaster of the McMaster Symphony Orchestra for many years and played professionally in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. Having explored connections between music and mathematics, Stewart has given more than 20 talks worldwide on Mathematics and Music and is planning to write a book that attempts to explain why mathematicians tend to be musical. Stewart was named a Fellow of the Fields Institute in 2002 and was awarded an honorary D.Sc. in 2003 by McMaster University. The library of the Fields Institute is named after him. The James Stewart Mathematics Centre was opened in October, 2003, at McMaster University.