TY - BOOK AU - Corral,Michael ED - Open Textbook Library TI - Vector Calculus T2 - Open textbook library AV - QA1 PB - Open Textbook Library KW - Mathematics KW - Textbooks N1 - 1 Vectors in Euclidean Space -- 2 Functions of Several Variables -- 3 Multiple Integrals -- 4 Line and Surface Integrals -- N2 - This is a text on elementary multivariable calculus, designed for students who have completed courses in single-variable calculus. The traditional topics are covered: basic vector algebra; lines, planes and surfaces; vector-valued functions; functions of 2 or 3 variables; partial derivatives; optimization; multiple integrals; line and surface integrals. The book also includes discussion of numerical methods: Newton's method for optimization, and the Monte Carlo method for evaluating multiple integrals. There is a section dealing with applications to probability. Appendices include a proof of the right-hand rule for the cross product, and a short tutorial on using Gnuplot for graphing functions of 2 variables There are 420 exercises in the book. Answers to selected exercises are included UR - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/91 ER -