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Hughes-Hallett/Lock/Gleason/Flath/Gordon/Lomen’s Applied Calculus, 5th Edition, (PDF) is praised for the creative and varied conceptual and modeling problems which encourage and challenge math students. The 5th Edition of this renowned text exhibits the same strengths from previous editions including the “Rule of Four,” a focus on concepts and modeling, exposition that
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