The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus: a Calculus

This study guide is intended to aid your understanding of multivariable calculus. We have organized it into chapters and sections corresponding to Basic Multivariable Calculus by Jerrold E. Marsden, Anthony ]. Tromba, and Alan Weinstein (Springer-Verlag/W.H. Freeman, 1993). Each section contains Goals, Study Hints, and (most important) Solutions to Every Other Odd Exercise. In addition, we have written chapter tests at the end of each review section.

This Student Guide is exceptional, maybe even unique, among such guides in that its author, Fred Soon, was actually a student user of the textbook during one of the years we were writing and debugging the book. (He was one of the best students that year, by the way. ) Because of his background, Fred has taken, in the Guide, the point of view of an experienced student tutor helping you to learn calculus. \~ile we do not always think Fred's jokes are as funny as he does, we appreciate his enthusiasm and his desire to enter into communication with his readers; since we nearly always agree with the mathe­ matical judgements he has made in explaining the material, we believe that this Guide can serve you as a valuable supplement to our text.