The six pillars of calculus : business edition The Six Pillars of Calculus: Business Edition is a conceptual and practical introduction to differential and integral calculus for use in a one or two semester course. By boiling calculus down to six common sense ideas the text invites students to make calculus an integral part of how they view the world. Each pillar is introduced by tackling and solving a challenging realistic problem. This engaging process of discovery encourages students to wrestle with the material and understand the reasoning behind the techniques they are learning to focus on when and why to use the tools of calculus not just on how to apply formulas.Modeling and differential equations are front and center. Solutions begin with numerical approximations; derivatives and integrals emerge naturally as refinements of those approximations. Students use and modify computer programs to reinforce their understanding of each algorithm.The Business Edition of the Six Pillars series has been extensively field tested at the University of Texas. It features hundreds of examples and problems designed specifically for business students. The core ideas are introduced by modeling market penetration of a new product tracking changes in the national debt and maximizing the profit of a business. Along the way students learn about present value consumer and producer surplus amortization and probability. Intro Contents Instructors Guide and Background Chapter 1. What is Calculus The Six Pillars Chapter 2. Predicting the Future: The SIR Model 2.1. A Problem of Market Penetration 2.2. Building the SIR Model 2.3. Analyzing the Model Numerically 2.4. Theoretical Analysis: What Goes Up Has to Stop Before it Comes Down 2.5. Epidemics 2.6. Covid 19 and the SIR model 2.7. Chapter Summary 2.8. Exercises Chapter 3. Close is Good Enough! 3.1. The Idea of Approximation 3.2. Functions 3.3. Linear Functions and Their Graphs 3.4. Linear Approximations and Microscopes 3.5. Eulers Method and Compound Interest 3.6. The SIR Model by Computer 3.7. Solving Algebraic Equations 3.8. Chapter Summary 3.9. Exercises Chapter 4. Track the Changes! 4.1. The National Debt 4.2. Marginal Cost Revenue and Profit 4.3. Local Linearity and Microscopes 4.4. The Derivative 4.5. A Global View 4.6. Chapter Summary 4.7. Exercises Chapter 5. Computing and Using Derivatives (What Goes Up has to Stop Before it Comes Down) 5.1. Building Blocks 5.2. Adding Subtracting Multiplying and Dividing Functions 5.3. The Chain Rule 5.4. Optimization 5.5. The Shape of a Graph 5.6. Newtons Method 5.7. Chapter Summary 5.8. Supplemental Material: Small Angle Approximations 5.9. Exercises Chapter 6. Models of Growth and Oscillation 6.1. Modeling with Differential Equations 6.2. Exponential Functions and Logarithms 6.3. Simple Models of Growth and Decay 6.4. Two Models of Oscillation 6.5. More Sophisticated Models 6.6. Chapter Summary 6.7. Supplemental Material: A Crash Course in Trigonometry 6.8. Exercises Chapter 7. The Whole Is the Sum of the Parts 7.1. Slicing and Dicing 7.2. Riemann Sums 7.3. The Definite Integral.